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Date:   Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:09:42 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 7:11 PM James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> >
> > I do this every development cycle, after requests from security subsystem
> > maintainers to sync to -rc kernels.
> 
> Why?
> 
> A merge should have a *reason*.

Yep, I understand what you mean. I can't find the discussion from several 
years ago, but developers asked to be able to work with more current 
kernels, and I recall you saying that if you want to do this, merge to a 
specific -rc tag at least.

I'm not personally fussed either way, and if anyone cc'd has an opinion, 
please comment. Otherwise, I'll go back to merging to Linus only as 
necessary.


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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>