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From:   Tigran Aivazian <aivazian.tigran@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:55:20 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 033/110] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 16:07, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:23:00PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > Yes, of course I object to it.
> I can not apply a patch to the stable trees that are not in Linus's tree
> first.  So there's nothing I can do here with this.

Ok, we can wait until my patch propagates into Linus' tree, but I
would have thought it would be a waste of your time to apply a patch
which is waiting to be inevitably superseded by a different one. I can
see there are 238 PRs at Linus' tree on github and I am very glad that
I looked into one of them --- it contained a long comment explaining
that I should NOT do what I was just about to do, i.e. make a PR
against Linus' tree! :)

And, besides, in the email conversation Linus approved my version of
the patch anyway.

Kind regards,
Tigran