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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 10:04:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190901000442.GF7777@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <295503.1567247505@turing-police>

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:31:45AM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 07:54:10 +1000, Dave Chinner said:
> 
> > The correct place for new filesystem review is where all the
> > experienced filesystem developers hang out - that's linux-fsdevel,
> > not the driver staging tree.
> 
> So far everything's been cc'ed to linux-fsdevel, which has been spending
> more time discussing unlikely() usage in a different filesystem.

That's just noise - you'll get whitespace and other trivial
review on any list you post a patch series for review. Go back and
look at what other people have raised w.r.t. to that filesystem -
on-disk format validation, re-implementation of largely generic
code, lack of namespacing of functions leading to conflicts with
generic/VFS functionality, etc.

Review bandwidth for things like on-disk format definition and
manipulation, consistency with other filesystems, efficient
integration into the generic infrastructure, etc is limited.
Everyone has to juggle that around the load they have for their own
filesystem maintenance, and there's usually only bandwidth for a
single filesystem at a time.

Just be patient - trying to force the merging of code before there's
even been consensus on fundamental architecture choices doesn't make
things better for anyone.  Merging incomplete filesystem code early
in the development cycle has -always- been something we've regretted
in the long run.  We've learn this lesson many times before, yet we
seem doomed to repeat it yet again...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-01  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-28 16:08 [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-28 17:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29  6:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29  6:39     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29  9:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29  9:50         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 10:37           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:04             ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 11:18               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 11:18             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-29 15:11               ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-29 15:27                 ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 15:43                   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-29 15:51                     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:04                       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30  8:34                         ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-30  8:43                           ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 11:26                             ` Dan Carpenter
2019-08-30 12:04                               ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:44                     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 16:59                       ` Joe Perches
2019-08-29 17:02                         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30  2:06                     ` Chao Yu
2019-08-30  6:38                       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 12:00                         ` Checking usage of likeliness annotations Markus Elfring
2019-08-30 11:51                       ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging David Sterba
2019-08-31  3:50                         ` Chao Yu
2019-08-30 15:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 21:54               ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-31 10:31                 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-01  0:04                   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2019-08-29  7:01     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29  8:24       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29  9:51         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 12:14 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 12:34   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-29 12:46     ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 14:08 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 15:44 ` Markus Elfring
2019-08-29 20:56 ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-29 23:18   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-29 23:35     ` Sasha Levin
2019-08-30  7:56       ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 14:03         ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 14:31           ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 16:03             ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:20               ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 16:22               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-16 16:32                 ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:50                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-10-16 20:33               ` Sasha Levin
2019-10-16 21:53                 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-17  7:53                   ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-17  7:50                 ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-13  0:06                   ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-13 21:18                     ` Sasha Levin
2020-02-14 22:16                       ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-02-14 22:43                         ` Pali Rohár
2020-02-14 23:25                           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-04-21 21:30                       ` exfat upcase table for code points above U+FFFF (Was: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging) Pali Rohár
2020-04-27 15:49                         ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-28  7:46                           ` Pali Rohár
2019-10-16 16:05             ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Valdis Klētnieks
2019-08-30  8:03     ` Pali Rohár
2019-08-30 15:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 15:43     ` Pali Rohár
2019-09-14 13:39 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to Park Ju Hyung
2019-09-15 13:54   ` Greg KH
2019-09-15 16:11     ` Ju Hyung Park
     [not found] ` <20190918195920.25210-1-qkrwngud825@gmail.com>
2019-09-18 20:12   ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: rebase to sdFAT v2.2.0 Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:13   ` Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:22     ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 20:26       ` Greg KH
2019-09-18 20:31         ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-09-18 20:46           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-09-18 21:31   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 21:31   ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-18 22:17     ` Ju Hyung Park
2019-10-24  9:39 ` [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging Pali Rohár

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