linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] orangefs: Axe some dead code

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Date:   Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:02:29 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Mike Marshall <hubcap@...ibond.com>
Cc:     Martin Brandenburg <martin@...ibond.com>,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] orangefs: Axe some dead code

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 06:09:39PM -0500, Mike Marshall wrote:
> We're on rc7 now. Linus said in LWN that there might be a rc8 this time.
> I'll try to get this pulled in 4.9-rc8 I hope, or sometime in 4.10...
> it is just a
> few lines of code that I don't think can be reached. Sorry for the confusion.

It's not -rc material at all.  Especially not after -rc2.  If you had
said 4.11, I would have been secretly disapointed at your lack of
courage in my heart but it would have been normal and fine.  Merging
this in 4.10 is the earliest reasonable.

regards,
dan carpenter