Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:06:08 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] namespace updates for v3.17-rc1 |
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Hi Eric,
On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:16:06 -0700 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > I am not certain what your point is.
I am just trying to give Linus a heads up for branches that have not had much exposure before he is asked to pull them.
> There have been no commits added since the merge window opened. > > There was one commit changed to fix a typo. I documented that already.
Yes, that is what confused my, sorry, since that commit and the ones following are new commits but unchanged patches.
> There were some commits pushed to the tree as late as friday that had > been out for review earlier than that and it is possible that you did > not pick them up in linux-next until monday. That doesn't mean I added > anything after the merge window opened.
Correct.
> I have also made certain all of these commits have at least had a chance > to show up in linux-next. > > As for missing cool tags shrug. The people looking at my code didn't > feel like saying the magic words so I didn't include cool tags.
Maybe you should push them ... these tags are not just "cool", they give less involved people some indications of what has happened in the life of a patch.
> Beyond that I have been quite out of it recently and this is what I had > time to do. If I had had a little more time and energy I would have > included unmount on unlink patches that still need magic to happen to > keep from blowing the stack in pathological cases on everything except > x86_64. That code has been sitting in linux-next. > > Which is a my long winded way of say it sounds like you are accusing me > of being irresponsible, and my way of saying that I have tested and
I did not mean to accuse, there are reasons (as you have pointed out) that things get added late, or rewritten.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |