Re: [GIT PULL] Remove dependencies on pagemap.h

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 10:18, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > OK.  I thought you liked this kind of churn stuff at the end of the window,
> > rather than having it create random unnecesary conflicts throughout the
> > development cycle.  Have you changed your mind on that?
> 
> I like things like automated churn at the end - IF I HAVE BEEN TOLD
> ABOUT AHEAD OF TIME and know to expect it, and people have said "this
> is scripted stuff that can cause conflicts, so I'd suggest we do it
> just after rc1 when all the big stuff is merged".
> 
> But I absolutely do *NOT* want to see a random pull that is broken in
> other ways popping up on the Friday before the merge window closes
> that has never been in linux-next and has never been explicitly talked
> about with me beforehand.

How far in advance do you want to know about it?  Because I did send you
email about it a few days ago; must've got lost.  It has been in
linux-next for a few days (would have been longer, but the Intel test
robot kept finding random drivers and configs that had build problems).
It's already generating conflicts with other header file changes, and
that's just going to be amplified throughout a whole development cycle.

I'd love to script this, but I just don't think that's possible.