Re: [PATCH v12 resend 0/1] fs: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf)

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 8/11/19 8:31 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 8/11/19 8:16 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 8/11/19 8:09 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 8/11/19 5:07 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> On 8/11/19 6:38 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is a resend of the 12th version of my cleaned-up / refactored version
>>>>> of the VirtualBox shared-folder VFS driver. It seems that for some reason
>>>>> only the cover letter of my initial-posting of v12 has made it to the list.
>>>>>
>>>>> This version hopefully addresses all issues pointed out in David Howell's
>>>>> review of v11 (thank you for the review David):
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes in v12:
>>>>> -Move make_kuid / make_kgid calls to option parsing time and add
>>>>>   uid_valid / gid_valid checks.
>>>>> -In init_fs_context call current_uid_gid() to init uid and gid
>>>>> -Validate dmode, fmode, dmask and fmask options during option parsing
>>>>> -Use correct types for various mount option variables (kuid_t, kgid_t, umode_t)
>>>>> -Some small coding-style tweaks
>>>>>
>>>>> For changes in older versions see the change log in the patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> This version has been used by several distributions (arch, Fedora) for a
>>>>> while now, so hopefully we can get this upstream soonish, please review.
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Still looks like patch 1/1 is not hitting the mailing list.
>>>> How large is it?
>>>
>>> Thank you for catching this:
>>>
>>> [hans@dhcp-44-196 linux]$ wc 0001-fs-Add-VirtualBox-guest-shared-folder-vboxsf-support.patch
>>>   3754  14479 100991 0001-fs-Add-VirtualBox-guest-shared-folder-vboxsf-support.patch
>>
>> That size shouldn't be a problem AFAIK.
>> Maybe there is something else in the patch that vger doesn't like.
>>
>>   http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-taboos.txt
>>
> 
> "Message size exceeding 100 000 characters causes blocking."
> from:  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> 
> I thought the limit was higher than that.
> 

Looks like it is higher for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org but maybe not
for other mailing lists.
I certainly see larger messages on lkml.

-- 
~Randy