Re: [GIT PULL] cgroup changes for v5.14-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jul 01 2021 - 20:26:28 EST


On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:55 PM Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git for-5.14

I've pulled it, but let me vent about this history a bit.

Look at commit c2a11971549b ("Merge branch 'for-5.13-fixes' into for-5.14").

Now tell me how that commit explains why it exists.

Merge commits need commit messages too.

In particular, they need commit messages that *explain* why they exist
in the first place, not just a one-liner that says what it does (and
does so badly at that).

Linus