linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fscache and cachefiles fixes

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwvKerkzigZmm0zrUTnsqDpJs0XBtX72Ltmek+_ic-KmA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:23:03 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     kiran.modukuri@...il.com, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fscache and cachefiles fixes

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:18 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > Why do they have commit times literally *minutes* before your email to
> > ask me to pull?
>
> I split the first patch into two because it had two more-or-less independent
> changes and it made it easier to describe them separately.

This didn't explain the background before that happened.

I really want the warm and fuzzies about things, and when I see
something being changed just minutes before, something like

  "I did a rebase becasue XYZ, but this was around in linux-next for a
week before that without problems"

tells me not only why the times are so recent, but also tells me that
I really shouldn't worry because so-and-so.

                  Linus