Re: [GIT PULL] cgroup changes for v5.14-rc1

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 05:25:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:55 PM Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git for-5.14
> 
> I've pulled it, but let me vent about this history a bit.
> 
> Look at commit c2a11971549b ("Merge branch 'for-5.13-fixes' into for-5.14").
> 
> Now tell me how that commit explains why it exists.
> 
> Merge commits need commit messages too.
> 
> In particular, they need commit messages that *explain* why they exist
> in the first place, not just a one-liner that says what it does (and
> does so badly at that).

for-5.13-fixes had comment updates across the file and I pulled them into
for-5.14 to avoid trivial context conflicts down the line. Yeah, I should
have commented on the rationale. Will add explanations from now on.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun