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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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[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago

Bruh, you can't just submit entirely new data structures as "fixes", let alone past the merge window.

It should not be hard at all to grasp that.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 52 points 4 months ago

He accepted Linus's needs as the project head to keep order. He resubmitted the patch set without the contentious parts. It's less than 1/3 the size and doesn't touch code outside of bcachefs. Problem solved.

Honestly, Kent seems pretty reasonable (though impassioned), and bcachefs well probably make it, and Kent will get used to just submitting things at the right time in the cycle.

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