Re: [GIT PULL] Remove dependencies on pagemap.h

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 10:18, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK.  I thought you liked this kind of churn stuff at the end of the window,
> rather than having it create random unnecesary conflicts throughout the
> development cycle.  Have you changed your mind on that?

I like things like automated churn at the end - IF I HAVE BEEN TOLD
ABOUT AHEAD OF TIME and know to expect it, and people have said "this
is scripted stuff that can cause conflicts, so I'd suggest we do it
just after rc1 when all the big stuff is merged".

But I absolutely do *NOT* want to see a random pull that is broken in
other ways popping up on the Friday before the merge window closes
that has never been in linux-next and has never been explicitly talked
about with me beforehand.

One is planned. The other is just rushed garbage and badly executed.

See the difference?  You should - because it's not a very subtle one.

                   Linus