linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the erofs tree

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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 22:50:13 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...hat.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@...ernel.net>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the erofs tree

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 03:36:13PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:40:07AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> 
> > I'm fine with that, although I think it's mainly with vfs changes
> > so could be better though with vfs tree. I will add this patch
> > tomorrow anyway... Thanks for reminder!
> 
> FWIW, my reasoning here is
> 	* erofs tree exists and
> 	* the patch is erofs-specific, affects nothing outside and
> has no dependencies with anything currently done in VFS or in other
> filesystems and
> 	* it does have (trivial) conflicts with the stuff in
> erofs tree
> 
> So putting it into erofs tree would seem to be an obvious approach -
> minimizes the amount of cross-tree dependencies and headache for
> everyone involved...

That is reasonable. btw, our initial thought was that relates to new
mount apis and we weren't very confident if it really went the
filesystem itself...

> 
> I'm dropping it from #work.misc and #for-next now.

I will push out for next cycle. Thanks for detailed explanation.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>