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Subject: Re: [PATCH] assoc_array: Fix BUG_ON during garbage collect
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 3:00 PM Stephen Brennan
> <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just wanted to check on this patch as the 5.19 window closes. David, are
>> you planning on taking this through a particular tree, or is the ask for
>> Linus to pick it directly?
>
> Ok, picked up directly.
>
> These fall through the cracks partly because it's not obvious what
> they are for. Sometimes I get pull requests from DavidH, and sometimes
> I get random patches, and while the pull requests are fairly
> unambiguous ("please pull") the same is not necessarily true of the
> patches. Are they for discussion, an RFC, or fro applying...

I understand the confusion, thanks for taking this up!

Stephen

>
> So then I pretty much guess.
>
>                  Linus