linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 3.4-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:06:52 -0500
From:	Ben Myers <bpm@....com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 3.4-rc1

Hey Linus,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 01:59:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Ben Myers <bpm@....com> wrote:
> >
> >   Please pull from git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs for-linus
> 
> "Already up-to-date."
> 
> I'd assume you forgot to push, but in fact all the things you quote
> there seem to have been in 3.3 already. So the whole pull request
> seems stale.
> 
> Wazzup?

PEBKAC mostly.

xfs/master contains scalability improvements for dquots, log grant code
cleanups, plus bugfixes and cleanups large and small.

Unfortunately the stuff in:  git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs master

Conflicts with the stuff in:  git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs for-linus

I've resolved the conflict here:  git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs for-linus-merged

I would like to figure out how to 
1) send important bugfixes upstream after rc1, and
2) not hold up development commits to xfs/master, while
3) avoiding conflicts like this.

Our old strategy was to hold off on development commits for awhile after
rc1, and I would like to avoid that.  It occured to me that
fast-forwarding xfs/master immediately to an important bugfix once it
has been pulled in to your tree might accomplish this, but clearly I
didn't get that figured out.

Thanks,
Ben

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