On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 4:36 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 09:35:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I don't love the timing of this at the end of the merge window, but pulled, > > When would have been a better time? It's too big for a late -rc, and > it contains stuff that needs fixing pretty urgently. So if the merge > window is not appropriate, what should we have done here? No, I think that with the timing of the problem finding, it was probably the only thing to do, but generally I like these kinds of somewhat scary and disruptive patches (just because it touches multiple filesystems) _early_ in the merge window if at all possible, and showing that the development was done before and not some rushed thing.. Linus