Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751959AbdFTO7v (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:59:51 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-f194.google.com ([209.85.217.194]:35959 "EHLO mail-ua0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874AbdFTO7t (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:59:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170619184245.GA20187@graymalkin.kudzu.us> From: Jon Mason Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:59:48 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] NTB bug fixes for v4.12 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ntb@googlegroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 34 On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Jon Mason wrote: >> Hello Linus, >> Here are a few NTB bug fixes for 4.12. > > So I pulled this, mainly because it removed more lines than it added > due to the revert. > > But generally I absolutely *hate* pulling stuff that I can see was > committed just hours ago. Why was that branch so recent? It very > obviously cannot have been in any linux-next or 0day or gotten any > other exposure. Is there a reason for that behavior? And if there is, This was in my ntb branch since June 9th. Previously, it was based on v4.12-rc4. Immediately prior to doing the pull request, I did a rebase to rc6 to avoid any potential issues you might have applying them. > just include it in the "please pull", because if it wasn't for the > "removes more lines than adds" I probably would just have decided to > ignore this. In the future, I will endeavor to be more verbose. I will include the previous version that it was based on and the testing done by the NTB developer community. I apologize for not doing this in this pull request, and I appreciate you asking me and not simply ignoring my email. Thanks, Jon > > Linus