From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:15:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjW7Up3KD-2EqVg7+ca8Av0-rC5Kd7yK+=m6Dwk3D4Q+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30c7ec73-4ad5-3c4e-4745-061eb22f2c8a@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:45 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Linus, sorry for sending this directly through you, instead of going
> through some other tree, but trying to get this upstream through the
> linux-fsdevel list / patch-review simply is not working.
Well, the filesystem maintainer sending their patches to me as a pull
request is actually the norm rather than the exception when it comes
to filesystems.
It's a bit different for drivers, but that's because while we have
multiple filesystems, we have multiple _thousand_ drivers, so on the
driver side I really don't want individual driver maintainers to all
send me their individual pull requests - that just wouldn't scale.
So for individual drivers, we have subsystem maintainers, but for
individual filesystems we generally don't.
(When something then touches the *common* vfs code, that's a different
thing - but something like this vboxsf thing this pull request looks
normal to me).
Even with a maintainer sending me pull requests I do obviously prefer
to see indications that other people have acked/tested/reviewed the
patches, but this is fairly small, simple and straightforward, and
absolutely nothing in this pull request makes me go "oh, that's
sketchy".
So no need to apologize at all, this all looks very regular.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-13 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-13 10:45 [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 Hans de Goede
2021-07-13 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-07-13 20:14 ` Al Viro
2021-07-13 20:18 ` Al Viro
2021-07-13 20:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-07-13 20:32 ` Al Viro
2021-07-13 21:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-07-14 10:50 ` Rafał Miłecki
2021-07-14 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-14 14:51 ` Greg KH
2021-07-14 15:59 ` Rafał Miłecki
2021-07-14 16:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-14 16:18 ` Rafał Miłecki
2021-07-15 21:50 ` Neal Gompa
2021-07-16 11:46 ` Leonidas P. Papadakos
2021-07-16 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-30 15:55 ` Konstantin Komarov
2021-07-30 17:23 ` Paragon NTFSv3 (was Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1) Linus Torvalds
2021-08-13 16:11 ` Konstantin Komarov
2021-08-15 20:32 ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-08-16 3:00 ` Kari Argillander
2021-09-02 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-03 22:48 ` [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-03 23:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-04 0:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-04 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-04 0:49 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-04 1:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-04 6:38 ` Kari Argillander
2021-08-04 16:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-05 15:48 ` Konstantin Komarov
2021-08-10 7:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-02 22:09 ` NTFS testing (was: " Szabolcs Szakacsits
2021-09-03 17:48 ` Eric Biggers
2021-09-03 21:17 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2021-07-17 16:47 ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-14 16:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-14 16:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-14 16:38 ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-14 20:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-07-15 22:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-13 19:17 ` pr-tracker-bot
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2021-06-23 12:55 Hans de Goede
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