linux-kernel - Re: ceph code review

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Message-Id: <20091203123111.eef5a398.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:31:11 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yehuda@...dream.net
Subject: Re: ceph code review

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:27:23 -0800 (PST)
Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The code looks reasonable to me.  Unless others emit convincing
> > squeaks, please ask Stephen to include your git tree into linux-next
> > sometime within the next month, then send Linus a pull request for
> > 2.6.33.
> 
> The code has seen 70 odd patches since then.  Mostly small fixes and 
> cleanups, and a handful of larger changes.  Should these see the light of 
> LKML before I send a pull request of Linus?  (So far they've just gone out 
> to the ceph commit list.) I don't want to spam everyone with a huge series 
> fixing up as yet unmerged code, but I'm not sure that review on the ceph 
> lists is sufficient, given the frequency with which I see fs series on 
> LKML...
> 
> What are the best practices here?
> 

My preference would be to fold all the little fixes back into the main
patch series then reissue it all as a nice patchset for people to
re-review.

But that practice has largely gone by the wayside in recent years
because of git-enforced restrictions :(.  It might muck up your
development history to an unacceptable-to-you extent also, dunno.


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