Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Jul 13 2021 - 16:24:10 EST


On 7/13/21 1:18 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:14:04PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:15:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:45 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
...
>>>
>>> (When something then touches the *common* vfs code, that's a different
>>> thing - but something like this vboxsf thing this pull request looks
>>> normal to me).
>>
>> 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.
>
> Example: if there's a series changing calling conventions for some method
> brewing in vfs.git and changes to filesystem's instance of that method
> in the filesystem tree. Then I'd rather it coordinated before either
> gets merged. It might be an invariant branch in either tree pulled by
> both, it might be a straight pull into vfs.git and sorting the things out
> there - depends upon the situation.
>

Hi Al,

Where would you prefer for kernel-doc changes in fs/*.[ch] be merged?

E.g., from June 27:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210628014613.11296-1-rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/


thanks.
--
~Randy