Re: Process (was Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes-unstable v18 00/14] khugepaged: add mTHP) collapse support

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 08:31:42PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> * Supposing we keep the model of early merging for testing [Lorenzo, don't
> yell at me ;-)] I think it's reasonable enough to drop everything that's
> not going upstream at, say, rc6 and ask contributors to rinse and repeat
> after rc1.

I won't yell :) but I really don't want us to do this, and to improve our
testing locally. Because:

- We've become a bit notorious for breaking linux-next

- It makes it more difficult for us to yank things

- It blurs the line between the stable branch (which in the new model we will be
  updating constantly rather than right at the end) and some 'unknown state' of
  'whatever we just sent to linux-next'.

Cheers, Lorenzo