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=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 09D28C433E0 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0C261920 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 01:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229999AbhCVBeZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:34:25 -0400 Received: from szxga07-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.35]:14836 "EHLO szxga07-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229728AbhCVBeB (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:34:01 -0400 Received: from DGGEMS413-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.59]) by szxga07-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4F3cRj36j2z927r; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:32:01 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.174.176.202] (10.174.176.202) by DGGEMS413-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.213) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.498.0; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:33:55 +0800 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 fixes for v5.12 To: Linus Torvalds , Theodore Ts'o CC: Ext4 Developers List , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" References: From: "zhangyi (F)" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:33:54 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.176.202] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/3/22 6:23, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:31 AM Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> >> zhangyi (F) (3): >> ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout >> ext4: do not iput inode under running transaction in ext4_rename() >> ext4: do not try to set xattr into ea_inode if value is empty > > Side note: this is obviously entirely up to the author, but I think it > would be nice if we would encourage people to use their native names > if/when they want to. > > Maybe this "zhangyi (F)" is how they _want_ to write their name in the > kernel, and that's obviously fine if so. > > But at the same time, coming from Finland, I remember how people who > had the "odd" characters (åäö) in their name ended up replacing them > with the US-ASCII version (generally "aa" "ae" and "oe"), and it > always just looked bad to a native speaker. Particularly annoying in > public contexts. > > At the same time, for the same reason, I can also understand people > not wanting to even expose those characters at all, because then > non-native speakers invariably messed it up even worse... > > Anyway, I think and hope that we have the infrastructure to do it > right not just for Latin1, but the more complex non-Western character > sets too. > > And as a result should possibly encourage people to use their native > names if they want to. At least make people aware that it _should_ > work. > > Again, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, and in this case "zhangyi > (F) " is just what zhangyi prefers simply because > it's easier/more convenient. > > But I just wanted to mention it, because we _do_ have examples of it > working. Not many, but some: > > git log --pretty="%an" --since=2.years | sort -u | tail > > including examples of having the Westernized name in parenthesis for > the "use that one if you can't do the real one" case.. > Hi, Linus. I will use my real name "Yi Zhang" next time. Thanks, Yi.