From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] reiserfs fixes patch set Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:11:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20071017151140.c5b782ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20071016230210.779927000@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071016230210.779927000@suse.com> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jeff Mahoney Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:02:10 -0400 Jeff Mahoney wrote: > This is a series of "safe" patches that have been in the openSUSE kernel > for a while now. > I'm not particularly happy seeing a large number of complex-looking patches against a not-very-well-maintained important filesystem more than a week into the merge window. It would have been far better to get this stuff sent a month ago. Now we're left with a choice between holding it all back for 2.5 months or just jamming it into mainline with basically no testing. I sure hope it got good testing in the suse kernel.