linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage

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Message-ID: <CAGe7X7mLU0JOftGVA+NHabu-9a=fuaofy+KhpvCJFnkRz5ANtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:01:12 -0700
From:   Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        ocfs2-devel <ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:34 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> I think I might not have communicated as clearly as I should have.
> Simply because I naively assumed that this is unproblematic.
>
> By "we" I mean people responsible for "fs/" which now happens to also
> include me. So the goal of this is for patches falling under fs/ to get
> picked up more quickly and broadly and share the maintenance burden.

Did you get buy-in from other folks in 'fs/'? What other projects are
you carrying? Granted I'm a bit out of the loop these days but this is
the first I'm hearing of this.

Andrew has a well oiled machine going, so if he's still ok carrying
the patches then that's where I'd like them until such time that you
can provide a tangible benefit.

Thanks,
   --Mark