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submitted 4 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list... Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

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[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 146 points 4 months ago

Kent developed for like 10 years on his own. He's just having a hard time learning how to play with others, and deal with large priority cycles. He just needs to know that sometime his changes will get pushed to the next cycle.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This. Well said.

Kent is reasonable, and sees Linus's need to keep order. I think he just pushes it sometimes, and doesn't understand how problematic that can be.

That said - he has resubmitted an amended version of the patch, that doesn't touch code outside of bcachefs, and is less than 1/3 the size.

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