Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:25:49 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] IPMI updates for 4.15 |
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > That way the pull requests don't end up being dependent on each other like this.
Just to clarify - it wasn't a problem this time, but sometimes I *do* end up delaying (or even rejecting) pulls, and quite often I strive to merge similar pull requests together (ie "now I'm doing filesystems" etc).
So avoiding dependencies between trees is good, and basically doing cross-merges should be done only for pretty pressing reasons.
This merge window, for example, I did filesystems yesterday. Well, *most* filesystems.
The AFS update depended on the networking pull, which hadn't come in yesterday. I suspect that one has a really good reason for the dependency, but if it hadn't had it, I would have been a bit annoyed by that kind of cross-pollination when I try to organize my pull requests..
But the fact that you both mentioned it in your respective pull requests was good, and means that I don't pull and then find out the hard way, which is the really annoying code.
So no worries.
Thanks.
Linus
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