From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935894AbZDCTQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:16:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755287AbZDCTQJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:16:09 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54616 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754814AbZDCTQI (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:16:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:13:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Mark Fasheh cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, Joel Becker , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [git patches] Ocfs2 updates for 2.6.30 In-Reply-To: <20090403184605.GC14571@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20090403184605.GC14571@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > Here is the Ocfs2 changes for this merge window. I sent all these > patches out to the list a couple weeks ago. Original mail is attached. Hmm. And I can _guarantee_ that none of these patches were actually tested as-is, because they were all rebased just minutes before the send. - top commit: Commit: Mark Fasheh CommitDate: Fri Apr 3 11:39:26 2009 -0700 - email: Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:46:05 -0700 From: Mark Fasheh So any possible subtle interactions with any other changes would never have been tested very much before the "please pull". 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. The whole "it compiles, it's perfect, ship it" mentality is _strictly_ only for me. Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi. Linus