Re: [GIT PULL] ntfs updates for 7.1-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 at 08:05, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series has been in linux-next for approximately two months. During
> that time, additional fixes from Smatch static analysis and the patches
> from other developers have been incorporated, including two build fixes
> from Mark Brown(VMA descriptor rename and inode lookup u64 change) that
> were picked up from linux-next.

I pulled this for testing, but this is not at all how any of this can work.

The branch I pulled does NOT EVEN BUILD.

It has been updated for new semantics that do not exist in that
branch, and that's not at all how any of this can ever work. If
anybody ever bisects into that tree, they get a failed build. Not ok.

This is something that I would have done at merge time as a fix for a
semantic conflict, not something that you can do in your tree that
makes the source tree not even build any more, and only build once it
has been merged upstream.

So no. We don't proactively "fix" merge issues by making the source
tree not work at all.

I have unpulled this.

             Linus