On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 04:21:26PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote: > >> Then, why don't we have a pre-integration tree for fixes? That would >> at least simply automated testing of fixes separately from new >> material. > >> Perhaps this has already been discussed, and concluded and it's not >> worth it, then apologize for my ignorance. > > I think this is an excellent idea, copying in Stephen for his input. > I'm currently on holiday but unless someone convinces me it's a terrible > idea I'm willing to at least give it a go on a trial basis once I'm back > home.
Since Stephen merges all -fixes branches first, before merging all the -next branches, he already generates that as part of linux-next. All he'd need to do is push that intermediate state out to some linux-fixes branch for consumption by test bots. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
