Boot time errors/warnings on snowball

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 05:51:19PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> I know that you've had a bee in your bonnet about the rate of which I
> sent patches for a while, but this instance has nothing to do with
> rushing. This is merely an ordering issue and the speed in which
> varying subsystems are merged into -next.
> 
> This is what -next is for though right? To identify these kinds of
> decencies before they're merged into Mainline. So let's do something
> about it now. I'm not sure what though, as I know that Mark isn't fond
> of rebasing his tree.

You can't solve dependencies by "tree X needs to merge before tree Y
otherwise Z breaks", period.

It gives the _illusion_ that it solves it, but it doesn't.  Just try
doing a git bisect and hitting commits in tree Y without tree X being
merged.  By doing it this way, you're basically telling people that
you can't bisect a merge window.  The merge window is _precisely_ the
period where we need bisectability to find bugs.

> It might not even be an issue though. We just need to ensure that
> Linus pulls from ARM-SoC prior to ASoC during the next merge
> window.

No you don't.  People need to understand how git works and realise that
"tree X merges before tree Y" is never a solution to a dependency
problem.