From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E31C433E9 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE00464F03 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231206AbhBZKhI (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 05:37:08 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57708 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231201AbhBZKfS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 05:35:18 -0500 Received: from mail-il1-x131.google.com (mail-il1-x131.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::131]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6901AC061574; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-il1-x131.google.com with SMTP id e7so7591221ile.7; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:34:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=dKPWJ2vXHOJ7BygK8wqPKLpAtkdMRDyOo5zcEtzB+lQ=; b=aDCpldvU7pTZUlcU0bh6o6izJC3pMqDFf8ZoDaybY8UHQjifgj4QKmw6tHh6dmWjs3 g/6JzYFlohIuHURl2qjlVa45z5RI1iWkiPBqRsOYYWUyvzR3k/kUjIuCBYbGP9x6+pSy a8EUhKcyvGGm8hQBgvPLAM+KJcKKKQcxqT2E+w55xSfNV6k8QxIPLxE/Mi5YQ7V8aWmI uR5PCEOJqUV3yfiJwcLovgZnaSB0/E+uV8qd11D7DH1KFuREX0JZ2R4e/bmS+fAbG5fo q6kOEL485/WcHBRPc3Oiv0OQ0T1YXAgROhbbjEsROUg2CiABoxGyLa4mHWXc6atJxf8y Oidg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=dKPWJ2vXHOJ7BygK8wqPKLpAtkdMRDyOo5zcEtzB+lQ=; b=ZFLJ3fXAeJovWGhtUQZWjcDMIf41JuKHp8d+l/XHcQlVDCgIhNJ4E/UFy1a6siBWc8 rITx5AkJxeE40cIdrB7jMAZJayK3oHLBeXVR2Rc0UYpIEiNpFG8lBFJHRkBqAaZFELdG lpFLP9AUn67oj39BKz73dM0zDzJp7OxJsFxoIg3pPjrnbr1cEApAms0QZFoeFKW2UMrd oTeMtyGTxFQICxWM7wp7R3RBmRSTez277HZR/m30YFVtqmYLDzqvFf0nZ9owZnzp5WcK NyyZS3/oLwDbEH64PKSbwres1ITbQ/l2r8e82cUYyc4/rlzqpcDQAQ1/t+1XXRgfblTH HMdw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530mkxc/rGqFSM5iDYbToO7stEEhnJ03E4vZgZU68D+/aCo3Utzv stM+U9DUTvpM7HYR2y142Yf+ghGQ40KXXkWl0AI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyVvQafC62ZZanNVOmiYZS+T7dRdoUjzY7ufrxA7FhWOl4Xvpul8DKSph5sHFpVYsYNJ4N2URBdaIKR7OVs1xg= X-Received: by 2002:a92:da90:: with SMTP id u16mr1918861iln.275.1614335677822; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:34:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210222102456.6692-1-lhenriques@suse.de> <20210224142307.7284-1-lhenriques@suse.de> In-Reply-To: From: Amir Goldstein Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:34:26 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" Cc: Luis Henriques , Michael Kerrisk , Jeff Layton , Steve French , Miklos Szeredi , Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker , Alexander Viro , "Darrick J. Wong" , Dave Chinner , Greg KH , Nicolas Boichat , Ian Lance Taylor , Luis Lozano , Andreas Dilger , Olga Kornievskaia , Christoph Hellwig , ceph-devel , linux-kernel , CIFS , samba-technical , linux-fsdevel , Linux NFS Mailing List , linux-man Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:13 PM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > > Hello Luis, > > On 2/25/21 11:21 AM, Luis Henriques wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:10:45PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > >> If it were me, I would provide all the details of the situation to > >> Michael and ask him > >> to write the best description for this section. > > > > Thanks Amir. > > > > Yeah, it's tricky. Support was added and then dropped. Since stable > > kernels will be picking this patch, maybe the best thing to do is to no > > mention the generic cross-filesystem support at all...? Or simply say > > that 5.3 temporarily supported it but that support was later dropped. > > > > Michael (or Alejandro), would you be OK handling this yourself as Amir > > suggested? > > Could you please provide a more detailed history of what is to be > documented? > Is this detailed enough? ;-) https://lwn.net/Articles/846403/ Thanks, Amir.