Re: [GIT] Security subsystem changes for 3.1

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Jul 27 2011 - 23:21:27 EST


On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, but this conflict was in my subsystem.
>
> .. but it was a conflict that came from the VFS subsystem changes.
>
> So it was clearly a cross-subsystem conflict. The fact that the file
> was in what you consider your subsystem IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. Because
> clearly somebody ELSE considered the change that conflicted to be part
> of THEIR subsystem!

Ok. So what should have happened here (fb408e6ccc) is that Al should have
emailed the patch to me to apply to my tree, instead of pushing it
directly?


- James
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James Morris
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