Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754865AbXHGECe (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:02:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750754AbXHGECY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:02:24 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:52718 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750695AbXHGECX (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:02:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:01:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: James Bottomley cc: Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc2 In-Reply-To: <1186458941.6637.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1186248703.3439.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1186458941.6637.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 30 On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > Confused ... you did get the first pull request in the first week. Here's the problem. Let me repeat it again: > > And after -rc1, I don't want to see crap like this: > > > > 46 files changed, 2837 insertions(+), 2050 deletions(-) It DOES NOT MATTER if I get a first pull request in the first week, if that pull request is purely cosmetic, and is followed by stuff that *should* have been in the merge window four weeks afterwards. > OK ... that's arguable. There's nothing arguable at all about it. If you have 5000 lines of changes, that's not a "bugfix" any more. That's a big damn change, and it should have happened in the merge window. Or if it doesn't make it in time, in the *next* merge window. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/