Unstable staging-next branch ?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sun Apr 3 07:35:34 PDT 2011


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 03:20:32PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Hey Greg, the staging-next branch seems pretty unstable right now, am
> I the only one experiencing this?

It was at an arbritrary merge point due to me syncing up to Linus's
tree.  It's now at .39-rc1.

> Unfortunately I cannot debug what is making it unstable at the moment
> though. Just curious -- can suck in new 2.6.38 stuff and also tags.
> Also would it be too much trouble to ask for private branch tags for
> staging-next updates to that we can keep track of which staging-next
> commits represents a batch of new updates? This way I can revert back
> to the last known merge you made. I tried to use the last ath6kl
> merged commit as a base point but that proved to have some kernel
> config issues (non ath6kl related) which prevented compilation of the
> kernel. At this point I know the last functional staging-next kernel
> was based on 2.6.38-rc5 but was unable to find a respective commit to
> use for it as a base point for my development.

You can always use whatever point you want (i.e. linux-next) and send
patches off of that if you want.

I'll queue up your patches later this week.

thanks,

greg k-h


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