Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] bcachefs: do not use PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM

Kent Overstreet
2024-11-22T06:51:50Z

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 04:53:48PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 11/20/24 21:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 03:47:59PM -0800, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:55:03PM -0500, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > > Shuah, would you be willing to entertain the notion of modifying your...
> > >
> > > Kent, I'd like to gently remind you that Shuah is not speaking in her
> > > personal capacity, but as a representative of the Code of Conduct
> > > Committee[1], as she has noted in her signature. The Code of Conduct
> > > Committee is appointed by, and reports to, the TAB[2], which is an
> > > elected body composed of kernel developers and maintainers.
> >
> > FYI, without taking any stance on the issue under debate here, I find the
> > language used by Shuah on behalf of the Code of Conduct committee
> > extremely patronising and passive aggressive. This might be because I
> > do not have an American academic class background, but I would suggest
> > that the code of conduct committee should educate itself about
> > communicating without projecting this implicit cultural and class bias
> > so blatantly.
>
> I tend to use formal style when I speak on behalf of the Code of Conduct
> committee. I would label it as very formal bordering on pedantic.
> Would you prefer less formal style in the CoC communication?

Personally, it's always easier to take requests from a human, than a
faceless process that I have no input into.

I'll always rebell against the latter, but I'll always work to help out
or make things right with people in the community.