linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] lib/printbuf: New data structure for heap-allocated strings

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Message-ID: <20220422052208.GA10745@lst.de>
Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:22:08 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        hannes@...xchg.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev,
        rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] lib/printbuf: New data structure for
 heap-allocated strings

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 01:14:48AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Christoph, you have no problem making more work for me but I can't even get you

I think you are misunderstanding this.  You are trying to create more
work for people maintainaing the kernel by creating duplicate
infrastructure.  The burden is always on the submitter.

> to look at the bugs you introuduce in your refactorings that I report to you.
> 
> Still waiting on you to look at oops you introduced in bio_copy_data_iter...

I'm not sure why I shoud care about your out of tree code making
assumptions about block layer helpers.