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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 10:33, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

So basically things like this need to be ready before the merge window.

During the merge window, I basically only read pull requests. Sure, I
read other emails, but it's a back seat operation at that point.

And I fetch linux-next the first week of the merge window. Anything
that isn't there at that point doesn't count as having been in
linux-next to me.

In fact, I should fetch linux-next *before* the merge window even
starts, but typically I never actually remember to do that, so I only
fetch it the first time I go "has this been in linux-next".

And honestly, none of the patches I saw actually seem to merit any
kind of special treatment. "Generates conflicts" is not a huge issue -
not for me, and not for linux-next - when it's trivial one-liners and
no actual code involved.

So put it in linux-next. Use a signed tag. Make a proper pull request
next time around.

             Linus