GitHub merges ‘useless garbage’ says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15

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Linus Torvalds will pull Paragon Software’s NTFS driver into the 5.15 kernel source – but he complained about the use of a GitHub merge in the submission, saying that GitHub “creates absolutely useless garbage merges.”

Early last month Torvalds gave Paragon Software a nudge that it really should submit a pull request – an actual submission of code to be merged into the kernel source – in order for its read-write NTFS driver to be included in the forthcoming 5.15 release, for which the merge window is currently open. NTFS is the native Windows file system and Paragon’s implementation will improve interoperability, versus the existing driver which has limited write support.