Re: [patch 8/9] mm: replace memmap_context by meminit_context

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:37 PM Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:

1/3 and 2/3 were cc:stable and 3/3 was not. As far as I can tell, 3/3 is rather theoretical once 2/3 has done its work, so I held it off for the next merge window.

That's not the problem, holding off is fine.

The problem is that the commit messages are garbage as a result. They were written as a series of three, but the patches weren't _sent_ as a series of three.

So if you split up a series like that, you should look at the commit mesages and edit them appropriately.

Or, in fact, try to avoid such commit messages that depend on other commit messages entirely.

Linus