Re: [git patches] Ocfs2 updates for 2.6.30

[Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:17:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Are they likely? Probably not. But that's not the point. The point is that 
> > you barely had time to compile that thing, much less give it any testing.
> 
> Gaah. I pulled it anyway. Today, I just can't find it in me to care about 
> ocfs2 testing.

Heh, thanks I guess :)


> But please - keep this in mind. Even if the commit is old, when you rebase 
> it, you really do move it into a whole new world order. And yes, it 
> _usually_ works just fine. 
> 
> But to make sure, please do spend some time after setting up the tree to 
> make sure that what I get really is something that you know is what I want 
> to get.

Point taken. Actually, the pre-rebased branch would have merged fine too, so
I really just rebased because of old habit, which isn't a good reason,
obviously.

Next time, I'll rebase early enough so that we can get a reasonable amount
of testing in.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh