linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:36:44 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:18:10PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Hey, that's not nice, erofs isn't a POS.  It could always use more
> review, which the developers asked for numerous times.
> 
> There's nothing different from a filesystem compared to a driver.  If
> its stand-alone, and touches nothing else, all issues with it are
> self-contained and do not bother anyone else in the kernel.  We merge
> drivers all the time that need more work because our review cycles are
> low.  And review cycles for vfs developers are even more scarce than
> driver reviewers.

A lot of the issue that are trivial to pick are really just very basic
issue that don't even require file system know how.  Or in other ways
just a little less lazy developer that looks out for similar code
outside their own little fiefdom.