Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next?

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Nov 14 2008 - 09:16:40 EST


On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:42:48 +0100 (CET) Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Apart from the patches you receive against -next, is there any other
> > advantage, giving staging is disabled?
>
> Others compile linux-next with all sorts of configs, so we hopefully will
> see any build failures. In fact, Greg might even built it with staging
> enabled :-)
>
> We will also see any merge conflicts (though there probably won't be
> many).
>
> I may also see if I can arrange for a build in each architecture with
> staging enabled in my infrastructure here, but it may take a little while.

I build them for m68k anyway, but due to timezone differences, you usually find
(and sometimes even fix ;-) the problems long before I notice them.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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