@kernellogger @kees @vbabka to be clear I am not a fan of the 'automerge' stuff, but I do think once something has at least sufficient review it should go in to -next, even if it might have unexpected later rounds of review.

Andrew won't take anything that has outstanding review on it btw. It is literally only the stuff that truly looks like it's going in.

But I concede I'd like there to be at least 1 tag and a day or 2 to make sure no obvious other objection before moving to -next.

The basically 'wait until we are really really sure there's nothing more before subjecting to testing' take though, yeah profoundly disagree.

What I've been finding with my series is that it goes to Linus and _suddenly_ you get a bunch of reports and are doing 12 hour days to fix things.

If you want less 'you ate my data!' I'd say test sooner.

Anybody testing -next and expecting serious stability is being silly even if all of your conditions were met, it's very fresh unstabilised code you can't rely on it.

And I literally run an rc as my main system atm btw...