linux-kernel - Re: incoming

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Message-ID: <c3af33ec-82d8-c26d-e93d-b7645e0efae9@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:13:28 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Subject: Re: incoming

On 7/17/19 6:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:47 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>>
>> So I've tried now to provide an example what I had in mind, below.
> 
> I'll take it as a trial. I added one-line notes about coda and the
> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface too.

Thanks.

> I do hope that eventually I'll just get pull requests,

Very much agree, that was also discussed at length in the LSF/MM mm
process session I've linked.

> and they'll
> have more of a "theme" than this all (*)

I'll check if the first patch bomb would be more amenable to that, as I
plan to fill in the mm part for 5.3 on LinuxChanges wiki, but for a
merge commit it's too late.

>            Linus
> 
> (*) Although in many ways, the theme for Andrew is "falls through the
> cracks otherwise" so I'm not really complaining. This has been working
> for years and years.

Nevermind the misc stuff that much, but I think mm itself is more
important and deserves what other subsystems have.