From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Tests tree not submitted? Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20080518220003.5169892a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080519135436.34d6d593.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080519043822.GA3473@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45759 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751417AbYESFBF (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 01:01:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080519043822.GA3473@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: ananth@in.ibm.com Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Sam Ravnborg , linux-next@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:08:22 +0530 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:54:36PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Hi Ananth, Sam, > > Hi Stephen, > > > Is there some reason that the tests tree changes have not bee submitted > > to Linus yet? They have been in linux-next for quite some time now > > (since February 24) without any changes. > > When this was submitted last, the opinion was that since it was post > 2.6.25-rc2 and since it had Kconfig changes, this should be deferred to > the next release. However I got busy during the merge time and couldn't > resumbit this. > > I believe this being a code movement, its mostly benign. But if it needs > to wait for 2.6.27, thats fine too; also given that the -mm is now based > on -next, it'll get a lot more tested. > > Andrew, > > What is the best way forward here? Given the code has been in -next for > a few months, and given -mm is now based on -next, will you be pushing > these changes to Linus during the next merge window? Or, do you want me > to resubmit the patchset again later in the 2.6.26-rc cycle? I don't even know what the "tests" tree _is_. Searching the past seven weeks lmkl archives for From:.*ananth.* turns up zero hits. So whatever this thing is, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too low-profile. Did you even send Linus a pull request? I have no record of one. Secret tree :(