On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 02:35:02PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Sure, I'm not a maintainer and just the stand-in patch shepherd for > a single release. However, being unable to cleanly merge code we > need integrated into our local subsystem tree for integration > testing because a patch dependency with another subsystem won't gain > a stable commit ID until the next merge window is .... distinctly > suboptimal.
Yes. Which is why we've taken a lot of mm patchs through other trees, sometimes specilly crafted for that. So I guess in this case we'll just need to take non-trivial dependencies into the XFS tree, and just deal with small merge conflicts for the trivial ones.
