Re: [RFC GIT PULL, v2] RCU changes for v4.12

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed May 10 2017 - 15:54:40 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The main changes are:
>
> So I've pulled it now (although it is showing signs of semantic
> conflicts, so I'll have to look at those), but I've got two requests,
> one for Ingo, one for Paul.
>
> Ingo: please don't bother sending me stupid crap.
>
> And by that I mean the whole patch WHEN IT IS 300kB IN SIZE!
>
> That's just idiotic. Nobody is ever going to review a 300kB patch that
> is ~7500 lines. All it does is waste time, and make it a pain to even
> reply to your emails (since I have "include quoted original" on by
> default in order to be able to quote and reply sanely).

Yeah, you are right and sorry about that - I have removed the patch
generation from my pull request scripts, so it shouldn't happen in
the future.

Thanks,

Ingo