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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxdun0-H13L+KCQ-Gn5kVAiyth=a+6NBcwcH5Ff8kHCcQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:05:50 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-ntb@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] NTB bug fixes for v4.12
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us> wrote:
>
> This was in my ntb branch since June 9th. Previously, it was based on
> v4.12-rc4. Immediately prior to doing the pull request, I did a
> rebase to rc6 to avoid any potential issues you might have applying
> them.
Please don't do that.
There are valid reasons for rebasing, but "just because" is not one of
them. The valid reasons are things like "I noticed that a completely
broken patch had made it into my queue, so I rebased to remove it" or
similar.
One common theme for valid reasons tends to be "..and I needed to
rerun all the testing", so in general I get very suspicious if things
are very recent, because clearly they didn't get very well tested.
Linus
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