linux-kernel - Re: [RFC GIT PULL, v2] RCU changes for v4.12

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Date:   Wed, 10 May 2017 21:54:32 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL, v2] RCU changes for v4.12


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > The main changes are:
> 
> So I've pulled it now (although it is showing signs of semantic
> conflicts, so I'll have to look at those), but I've got two requests,
> one for Ingo, one for Paul.
> 
> Ingo: please don't bother sending me stupid crap.
> 
> And by that I mean the whole patch WHEN IT IS 300kB IN SIZE!
> 
> That's just idiotic. Nobody is ever going to review a 300kB patch that
> is ~7500 lines. All it does is waste time, and make it a pain to even
> reply to your emails (since I have "include quoted original" on by
> default in order to be able to quote and reply sanely).

Yeah, you are right and sorry about that - I have removed the patch
generation from my pull request scripts, so it shouldn't happen in
the future.

Thanks,

	Ingo