linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v4 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6

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Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:18:33 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
Cc:     Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
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        Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...com>,
        Niket Agarwal <niketa@...com>, Yann Collet <cyan@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v4 0/9] Update to zstd-1.4.6

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:49:49PM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote:
> > On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:53 PM, Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
> 
> It has been brought to my attention that patch 3 hasn’t made it to patchwork,
> likely because it is too large. I’ll include a pull request in the next cover letter,
> together with the patches (if needed).

The patch 3/9 saved to a file is 1.6M, over 35000 lines, the diffstat
says:

 66 files changed, 24268 insertions(+), 12889 deletions(-)

Seriously, this is wrong in so many ways. There's the rationale for
one-time change etc, but the actual result is beyond what I would accept
and would not encourage anyone to merge as-is.