Re: [GIT PULL] block driver bits for 3.7

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 15:13:27 EST


On 2012-10-29 19:35, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Later than I would have liked, but I was traveling around the merge
>> window and then a fixes snuck in past that and I wanted to ensure that
>> everything was fully baked again.
>
> Didn't we agree last time that drbd just wasn't important enough to
> *constantly* cause these kinds of "lots of late fixes"?
>
> In fact, they aren't even fixes. There's a single small commit during
> the merge window since v3.6 touching that driver, and it wasn't even
> drbd-specific.
>
> In other words, I see absolutely no reason to pull this stuff at this
> time. It's so far out of the merge window that it's not funny, and it
> has absolutely nothing about it that says "fixes".
>
> So mind sending just the actual *fixes* for actual regressions, and
> then you can re-push this for the next merge window?

It was actually the floppy part that caused a delay on my end. But sure,
I can distill this down given the time. I'll send out a new one
tomorrow.

--
Jens Axboe

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