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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: Two small fixes for recent syzbot reports
From:   Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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Date:   Thu, 9 Apr 2020 17:14:46 -0400
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> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:06 PM, Linus Torvalds =
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:58 AM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
>>=20
>> Agree to make a big deal part. My point is that when kicking trees of =
linux-next, it also could reduce the exposure of many patches (which =
could be bad) to linux-next and miss valuable early testing either from =
robots or human.
>=20
> Sure. But I'd want to be notified when something gets kicked out, so
> that I then know not to pull it.
>=20
> So it would reduce the exposure of patches, but it would also make
> sure those patches then don't make it upstream.
>=20
> Untested patches is fine - as long as nobody else has to suffer =
through them.

Excellent. It now very much depends on how Stephen will notify you when
a tree, a patchset or even a developer should be blacklisted for some =
time
to make this a success.=