linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 01/16] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:48:19 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/16] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> BTW, how serious have you been back at KS when you were talking about
> pull requests killing a thousand of lines of code being acceptable
> at any point in the cycle?

Well... I'm absolutely a lot more open to pull requests that kill code
than not, but I have to admit to being a bit more worried about stuff
like your execve/fork patches that touch very low-level code.

So I think I'll punt that for 3.8 anyway.

         Linus
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