linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates

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Message-ID: <fd5d0d24-35e3-6097-31a9-029475308f15@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:13:15 +0100
From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
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        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates

Hello Luis,

On 2/25/21 11:21 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:10:45PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> If it were me, I would provide all the details of the situation to
>> Michael and ask him
>> to write the best description for this section.
> 
> Thanks Amir.
> 
> Yeah, it's tricky.  Support was added and then dropped.   Since stable
> kernels will be picking this patch,  maybe the best thing to do is to no
> mention the generic cross-filesystem support at all...?  Or simply say
> that 5.3 temporarily supported it but that support was later dropped.
> 
> Michael (or Alejandro), would you be OK handling this yourself as Amir
> suggested?

Could you please provide a more detailed history of what is to be 
documented?

Thanks,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/