From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423223Ab2LFMGs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 07:06:48 -0500 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:55078 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323Ab2LFMGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 07:06:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 07:06:45 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Chinner Cc: Linus Torvalds , Martin Steigerwald , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH, 3.7-rc7, RESEND] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI Message-ID: <20121206120645.GB14100@infradead.org> References: <1353366267-15629-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <201212051148.28039.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <201212051718.44017.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <20121206011402.GB27172@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121206011402.GB27172@dastard> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 12:14:02PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:25:17AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes, people can argue that "process" is about technical issues too, > > but let's be honest: our process is fluid. Not everything gets > > reviewed on the mailing list, and people *do* talk about things > > face-to-face at conferences. > > Yes, that is true. > > But we don't review code at conferences. We have mailing lists for > that. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard "post your > code" or "let's take it to the list" or "better to discuss this on > the list where everyone can comment" at conferences such as > Plumbers. It's a standard practise - talk at conferences, review > on mailing lists. Also the only conference outcome I remember is that everyone at LSF except for Ted basically said "no fucking way".