linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] IDA/IDR fixes for 4.19

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Date:   Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:16:08 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] IDA/IDR fixes for 4.19

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 06:56:32PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 01:40:17PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > I have two tiny fixes, one for the IDA test-suite and one for the IDR
> > documentation license.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit f0a7d1883d9f78ae7bf15fc258bf9a2b20f35b76:
> > 
> >   afs: Fix clearance of reply (2018-10-15 15:31:47 +0200)
> > 
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax.git ida-fixes-4.19-rc8
> 
> How about you at least test these in linux-next?  Putting things on top
> of the most recent change is a huge tip-off that this branch got no
> testing :(

One of the two changes is a comment line in a doc file.
The other has been tested by 0day (which originally reported the issue).

I don't see how spending time in linux-next is going to achieve anything.