linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI

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Message-ID: <20121120163631.GA18034@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:36:31 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tytso@....edu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:04:27AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> The method of pushing of such a commit (i.e. written, committed and
> pushed by a tree maintainer as part of a larger subsystem merge)
> could be seen as designed to avoid review and discussion of a
> controversial change that is likely to be NAKed. A long-term
> subsystem maintainer should know better than to push changes in this
> manner.


Agreed, this needs to be reverted.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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