linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.6-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:47:52 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.6-rc1

Hi Linus,

On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 18:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yeah, it's actually only just over 12 days since 3.5 was released, but
> I hate the people who send me last-minute pull requests, so I like
> pulling the rug out from under people who plan on doing their pull
> request in day 13 of the 14-day merge window. If that was your plan,
> screw that.

We have had 11 of 13 pieces of the 'sync_supers()' removal patch-sets
merged. The 12th piece removes dead code in exofs was supposed to go
through the exofs tree and blocked the 13th piece which removes
'sync_supers()' and was supposed to go via the VFS tree.

Both 12th and 13th pieces zap dead code. I man not sure delaying that to
v3.7 would be very beneficial for the kernel (why having a useless
thread waking up every 5 secs?). Would you let us merge this to -rc1?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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