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Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:24:57 +0200
From:   Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
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Hi Christoph,

On 2023-09-28 02:13:35-0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> NAK.

That's honestly surprising.

I mentioned this process in various reviews before and nobody
had issues with it so far.

> This does not scale.

Could you elaborate in which way it doesn't scale?

> Please read the mailinglist, that's the whole
> point of having it.

When reviewing things in various subsystem this would require reading
all of LKML, which is impractical.

The goal of this patch was to make life easier for occasional reviewers.
If it negatively impacts the maintainers then that's not gonna work.


Thomas