From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
roland@redhat.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
hjl.tools@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next requirements
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:53:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100303215314.GC2579@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100228072357.GB14205@elte.hu>
> Today's stats, done amongst users who are willing to opt in to the Smolt
> daemon:
>
> x86: 99.7%
> powerpc: 0.3%
Lies, bad lies, statistics.
> And yes, there are millions of ARM (and MIPS) CPUs running Linux as well.
> (They are only as present as present their developers are: the users almost
> never show up on linux-kernel.)
It cuts both ways. Maybe obscure architectures like alpha have more
than their marketshare of interested lkml users...
> Plus, a kernel subsystem maintainer like me who does lots of kernel
> infrastructure work can have a pretty good gut feeling about which
> architectures are actively helping out Linux, and which are just hanging on to
> the bandwagon.
So instead of either fixing those architectures or marking them
deprecated, you blame Stephen for too much testing?
We are in middle of 'stable series', so regressions are not
permitted. You'd like to cause some regressions. Fine, but definitely
not Stephen's problem.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-03 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 19:50 [patch v3 0/2] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - v3 Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 19:50 ` [patch v3 1/2] x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 23:18 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-12 3:45 ` [patch v3 1/2] " Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 17:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-11 19:51 ` [patch v3 2/2] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 23:19 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-22 9:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 9:33 ` linux-next requiements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET) Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-22 10:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 11:47 ` linux-next requirements " Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-22 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-22 23:59 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-23 20:20 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-23 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-23 22:54 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-23 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-23 19:52 ` Al Viro
2010-02-23 19:57 ` Al Viro
2010-02-24 7:25 ` linux-next requirements Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-27 1:53 ` Grant Likely
2010-02-27 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-02-27 9:09 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-02-27 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 12:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-27 12:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 19:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-27 21:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-02-27 22:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-28 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 12:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-28 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 7:37 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-28 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 8:19 ` Al Viro
2010-02-28 8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 10:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-28 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:13 ` Nick Bowler
2010-03-03 21:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-03-04 0:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-04 1:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 2:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 18:37 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Roland McGrath
2010-02-23 18:36 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] parisc: Disable CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK tip-bot for Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 3:56 ` [patch v3 2/2] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 15:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
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