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[194.187.74.233]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id p16sm191967lfs.83.2021.07.14.08.59.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 To: Greg KH Cc: Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , Konstantin Komarov , Hans de Goede , linux-fsdevel , LKML , "Darrick J. Wong" References: <30c7ec73-4ad5-3c4e-4745-061eb22f2c8a@redhat.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Message-ID: <7f4a96bc-3912-dfb6-4a32-f0c6487d977b@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:59:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14.07.2021 16:51, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 12:50:08PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> Hi Alexander, >> >> On 13.07.2021 22:14, Al Viro wrote: >>> To elaborate a bit - there's one case when I want it to go through >>> vfs.git, and that's when there's an interference between something >>> going on in vfs.git and the work done in filesystem. Other than >>> that, I'm perfectly fine with maintainer sending pull request directly >>> to Linus (provided that I hadn't spotted something obviously wrong >>> in the series, of course, but that's not "I want it to go through >>> vfs.git" - that's "I don't want it in mainline until such and such >>> bug is resolved"). >> >> let me take this opportunity to ask about another filesystem. >> >> Would you advise to send pull req for the fs/ntfs3 directly to Linus? >> >> That is a pending filesystem that happens to be highly expected by many >> Linux focused communities. >> >> >> Paragon Software GmbH proved it's commitment by sending as many as 26 >> versions on it's patchset. The last set was send early April: >> >> [PATCH v26 00/10] NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software >> https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=161738417018673&q=mbox >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fsdevel/list/?series=460291 >> >> >> I'd say there weren't any serious issues raised since then. >> >> One Tested-by, one maintenance question, one remainder, one clang-12 >> issue [0] [1]. >> >> It seems this filesystem only needs: >> 1. [Requirement] Adjusting to the meanwhile changed iov API [2] >> 2. [Clean up] Using fs/iomap/ helpers [3] > > Why haven't those things been done and the patches resubmitted for > review? Nothing we can do from our side when the developers don't want > to submit a new series, right? The real issue (broken compilation) has been pointed out 2 days ago and is a result of a more recent commit. For months filesystem could be pushed but it wasn't for unknown reason. As for fs/iomap/ helpers it's unclear to me if that is really required or could be worked on later as a clean up. Darrick joked his opinion on using those helper is biased. In short I'd say: missing feedback.