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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxjwW4Ppv-73WHh-RqeFvq+Bjr3o08ZuKkiWuwAVMkqFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:04:19 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> I guess that if you agree that it should go in once it had some more
> testing, it can go into linux-next and sit there for the next couple
> of weeks until the next merge window opens.

So linux-next gets compile testing and warns about conflicts. But
almost nobody really runs the end result.

Now, *hopefully* the compile problems and conflicts are the major
issue, but at the same time, I worry about some actual subtle semantic
breakage. I'm not sure how it would happen, but it's a big patch..

> What would be the best way to do that though? see if akpm would take
> it into his tree?

That would help. As would just linux-next. As would just after the
next merge window closes, if you can send it almost immediately *and*
have the "at least the patch has been around for a long time with no
*known* breakage" note. Because at some point, I guess we can't do
much more than that.

                Linus
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