linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] namespace updates for v3.17-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:30:59 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] namespace updates for v3.17-rc1

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
>> As for missing cool tags shrug.  The people looking at my code didn't
>> feel like saying the magic words so I didn't include cool tags.
>
> Maybe you should push them ... these tags are not just "cool", they
> give less involved people some indications of what has happened in the
> life of a patch.

Etiquette is a good idea where it helps things flow smoothly.  Other
times like this standing on etiquette would have resulted in trivial
fixes for long standing issues not going anywhere.

Althogh I will keep it in mind in the future.

>> Which is a my long winded way of say it sounds like you are accusing me
>> of being irresponsible, and my way of saying that I have tested and
>
> I did not mean to accuse, there are reasons (as you have pointed out)
> that things get added late, or rewritten.

I really try to avoid those reasons but I missed it this round and the
buildbot did not manage to find the comibination with a build error
until the code hit linux-next :(

Eric

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