Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] iomap and gfs2 fixes

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 07:21:46AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 07:50:28PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:09:29AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > Here's another update of this patch queue, hopefully with all wrinkles
> > > ironed out now.
> > > 
> > > Darrick, I think Linus would be unhappy seeing the first four patches in
> > > the gfs2 tree; could you put them into the xfs tree instead like we did
> > > some time ago already?
> > 
> > Sure.  When I'm done reviewing them I'll put them in the iomap tree,
> > though, since we now have a separate one. :)
> 
> I'd just keep the iomap stuff in the xfs tree as a separate set of
> branches and merge them into the XFS for-next when composing it.
> That way it still gets plenty of test coverage from all the XFS
> devs and linux next without anyone having to think about.
> 
> You really only need to send separate pull requests for the iomap
> and XFS branches - IMO, there's no really need to have a complete
> new tree for it...

<nod> That was totally a braino on my part -- I put the patches in the
iomap *branch* since now we have a separate *branch*. :)

(and just merged that branch into for-next)

--D

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com