Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Dec 15 2009 - 18:08:32 EST




On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:27:17 -0800 Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [091215 06:52]:
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:41:08PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have applied this patch for today (please check):
> > >
> > > Looks good to me too, fwiw:
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Good thing we have for-next to catch things like this.
>
> Except if the renaming patch had gone through linux-next (even for one
> day) we would have found the problem *before* it was in Linus' tree ...

I think maybe Tony was being ironic, exactly because of this.

Linus
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