Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol.c: move mem_cgroup_id_get_many under CONFIG_MMU

From: Qian Cai
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 10:34:59 EST




> On Dec 17, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Maybe Qian is right and we should just ignore such patches, but I think that comes with its own risks that we will alienate perfectly well intentioned new contributors to mm without them having any idea why we did that.

Yes, that is a good point, but in reality is that there are many subsystems have already done the same. We even have some famous introduction document for kernel development put in the way that if âthe maintainers (or Linus) ignored your patches after the resend, they probably donât like it.â