Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:35:04 -0700 | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with Linus' tree | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > This is rather a fiasco. "vfs: reorganize dput() memory accesses" made > rather a mess of a 46 patch series which has been under development and > test for two cycles so far.
Andrew, *please* don't do the insane rebasing you keep on doing.
Nobody else does that, and it adds more work for you, and makes your patch bombs be untimely.
And I'll be honest, I don't care about the "more work for you" part, since I don't really see it, but I do care about the "untimely" part. That's the one that affects me. For example, I'm traveling starting Friday, so I'll close the merge window on the road (linuxCon US next week, a weekend of diving before that). It would be much nicer if I have almost nothing pending before I leave.
And quite frankly, there is absolutely nothing that touches fs/dcache.c that should be in your tree anyway, as far as I can tell.
But seriously - don't do the constant rebasing. I tell the git people that, because I hate how it actually dilutes the value of any testing they did. The fact that you rebase to the day you send the patches is actually taking *away* value from what you do, and it adds a lot of work for you.
So I'd (once again) suggest you base your pile of patches on the previous stable kernel, and that linux-next take it *first* rather than take it last.
Linus
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