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From:   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 11:55 AM James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> >
> > The main changes here are Paul Gortmaker's removal of unneccesary module.h
> > infrastructure.
> 
> I will point out a merge with a horrible commit message:
> 
>     "Sync to Linux 4.20-rc2 for downstream developers"
> 
> that tells nobody anything.
> 
> Why was that merge done? If you can't explain the merge, just don't do
> the merge.

I do this every development cycle, after requests from security subsystem 
maintainers to sync to -rc kernels. 


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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>