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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:51:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YO755O8JnxG44YaT@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bea2bcf2-02f6-f247-9e06-7b9ec154377a@gmail.com>

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?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-14 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-13 10:45 [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 Hans de Goede
2021-07-13 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-13 20:14   ` Al Viro
2021-07-13 20:18     ` Al Viro
2021-07-13 20:24       ` Randy Dunlap
2021-07-13 20:32         ` Al Viro
2021-07-13 21:43           ` Randy Dunlap
2021-07-14 10:50     ` Rafał Miłecki
2021-07-14 14:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-14 14:51       ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-07-14 15:59         ` Rafał Miłecki
2021-07-14 16:05           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-14 16:18             ` Rafał Miłecki
2021-07-15 21:50               ` Neal Gompa
2021-07-16 11:46               ` Leonidas P. Papadakos
2021-07-16 18:07                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-30 15:55                   ` Konstantin Komarov
2021-07-30 17:23                     ` Paragon NTFSv3 (was Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1) Linus Torvalds
2021-08-13 16:11                       ` Konstantin Komarov
2021-08-15 20:32                         ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-08-16  3:00                         ` Kari Argillander
2021-09-02 21:55                       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-03 22:48                   ` [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-03 23:44                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-04  0:04                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-04  0:10                         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-04  0:49                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-04  1:03                             ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-04  6:38                               ` Kari Argillander
2021-08-04 16:30                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-05 15:48                               ` Konstantin Komarov
2021-08-10  7:02                                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-02 22:09                           ` NTFS testing (was: " Szabolcs Szakacsits
2021-09-03 17:48                             ` Eric Biggers
2021-09-03 21:17                               ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2021-07-17 16:47                 ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-14 16:13           ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-14 16:18             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-14 16:38               ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-14 20:03               ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-07-15 22:14               ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-13 19:17 ` pr-tracker-bot

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