> The patchset itself was broken and intermediate states didn't compile
As a maintainer, isn't it then your right to refuse the patchset and demanding a clean patchset instead?
As a maintainer, isn't it then your right to refuse the patchset and demanding a clean patchset instead?
For stuff I accept, I try and make sure that intermediate states compile, but I can't promise I run a compile on every intermediate step or that my review eye is good enough to spot every wrongly-ordered-dependent-change. It would be nice if someone would throw hardware at building intermediate states of linux-next and sent nastygrams to maintainers/committers about it: might make people more careful.
I have a continuous integration tool for bcache in place, but it's more geared on end states-- compiling/checkpatch/test sequence.