Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc2

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 10:48:40 EST


> I fully agree, and firmly believe that the current stabilisation works
> incredibly well for shaking out bugs. My problem is that it doesn't
> work for stabilising features. Either we have to get far more people
> doing feature integration testing before the merge window, or we have to
> accept feature updates after the merge window (for existing features
> that are having stability issues).

The other alternative is that if Linus won't take updates you ask him to
revert bsg so that you don't get a half baked merge as a result of this.
I'm not sure that is a good path to follow either however.

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