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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:16:51 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Modules updates for v5.17-rc1
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 07:38:25AM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 2:20 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Although this change was only merged on January 11th, the patches have
> > been being reviewed since early december. There was at least one fix
> > already found for it and merged.
> 
> Grr..
> 
> And that's exactly why it matters not about "being reviewed", but when
> they were in linux-next etc.
> 
> I've pulled this, but consider this a complaint. Things should not be
> "reviewed" before the merge window. They should be ready and merged
> and have actually seen some testing.
> 
> Review is good. But nothing beats actually being out there and
> actually seeing real-life testing (of course, linux-next probably
> mostly gets build-testing, but what testing it gets is still better
> than not being there).

Understood, that gives me a better ballpark idea of when to defer
things for a next release. Thanks for the feedback.

  Luis