Re: mm.git review status at 7.2-rc7

On 8/13/26 23:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:46:45 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 10:37:13AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, good, we fast-tracked an unreviewed cleanup as a stable fix upstream.
>>>
>>> What is happening.
> 
> Yes, the fix should have been tested, sent and merged as a standalone
> thing.  But I'm reluctant to split a series because that results in
> merging code which the author didn't test.
> 
>> Meanwhile a well-reviewed series which includes bugfixes is apparently
>> not even being considered for this merge window because I spent a lot of
>> time figuring out what Sashiko was concerned about?
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
>>
>> This was originally posted 5 weeks ago (ie when rc2 was current), so I
>> don't understand why it's not being considered.  It's been tested by the
>> people most likely to uncover bugs in it.  It's not going to get any
>> realistic testing in -next because most people use neither hugetlb nor
>> hwpoison.
> 
> Sorry, this simply fell through a crack.  Happens sometimes - poke me!
> 

Just noting that it's the right thing to do to not merge code without component
maintainer's ACKs :)

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Cheers,

David