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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: dsterba@suse.cz, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Folio fixes for 5.18
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 22:55:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yk0rbm6n6801cEq9@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkxQkZ24Zz9KCxK1@casper.infradead.org>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:22:09PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:08:48PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > Matthew, can you please always CC linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org for any
> > patches that touch code under fs/btrfs? I've only noticed your folio
> > updates in this pull request. Some of the changes are plain API switch,
> > that's fine but I want to know about that, some changes seem to slightly
> > modify logic that I'd really like to review and there are several missed
> > opportunities to fix coding style. Thanks.
> 
> I'm sorry, that's an unreasonable request.  There's ~50 filesystems
> that use address_space_operations and cc'ing individual filesystems
> on VFS-wide changes isn't feaasible.

FYI, for these kinds of global API changes I tend to add all the
mainling lists, but drop the multiple maintainers that would blow this
up even futher.  But even that lead to occasional complaints.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-06  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-01 18:54 Matthew Wilcox
2022-04-01 21:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2022-04-05 12:08 ` David Sterba
2022-04-05 14:22   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-04-05 18:09     ` David Sterba
2022-04-06  5:55     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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