Hi folks,
During LPC Linus brought up a concern that linux-next is too lightly tested, and pull requests that end up reaching him still might be functionally broken (and kill his laptop).
linux-next works great as an integration branch as far as conflicts between trees and build issues go, but it's volatile state makes it very difficult to test it. For example, a single for-next branch that wasn't tested can ruin testing for everyone else.
I've proposed a new "linus-next" tree which is composed of pull requests that were sent to Linus. This (in theory) will give us a higher quality tree that will be composed only of pull requests that were sent to Linus but not picked up yes. Basically, we'll be frontrunning Linus as he goes on with his merges.
The tree is located at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linus-next.git and the branch is 'linus-next'.
As far as testing goes, I think that it should be equivalent to what Linus's tree gets, but I'm open to suggestions.
Thank you!