On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:38:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes the branches on linux-next are experimental crap.  If someone
>> adds an experimental memory allocator to linux-next before discovering
>> it causes all kinds of problems I don't want bug reports about my code
>> not being able to allocate memory because the memory allocator was bad.
>>
>> If you don't have the resources to test the individual branches of
>> linux-next please just test Linus's tree.   That will be much more
>> meaningful and productive.
>
> I have to agree with Eric here, the reason why Fengguang Wu's 0-day
> testing robot is much better received by developers is that he does
> not test linux-net,

I will remove linux-next if there is a general agreement that it's not
useful. Though, I've heard different opinions from kernel developers
as well. I will write a separate email asking what branches should be
tested.

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