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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Nominating Fengguang Wu - 0-day
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On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:02:15PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 02:35:58PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>> >
>> >How about linux-next ?
>>
>> linux-next could be perfectly supported, however in a different
>> "rebase" way than the "merges" for RC kernels.
>>
>> Suppose there are 100 branches based on -rc2 and another 100 branches
>> on -rc3. We can typically merge most of the 200 branches onto -rc3,
>> since there are relatively few changes between -rc2 and -rc3.
>
>Since linux-next already contains all maintainer branches slated for -next,
>merging that won't help much and seems tedious. I think 0day should just
>runs tests on top of linux-next everyday and report, if not done already.

Yes we are already testing linux-next. There are some few trees based
on linux-next because many LKML patches could be applied to it for
testing -- if they cannot apply to "guessed" maintainer trees and RC
kernels. So we have to handle patches on linux-next well.

Thanks,
Fengguang