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

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:10:25 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.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 09:48:01PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 02:56:38PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:37:06PM +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
> > > Andrew picked ocfs2 patches into -mm tree before.
> > 
> > Yup and that's fine obviously, but this belongs to fs/ and we're aiming
> > to take fs/ stuff through the dedicated fs trees going forward.
> 
> Er...  Assuming that there *is* an active fs tree for filesystem
> in question.  Do you really want dedicated e.g. affs, adfs, etc.
> git trees - one for each filesystem in there?

No, that's not meant or want. What I meant is that when a filesystem
doesn't have a dedicated tree (and/or active maintainers) mentioned in
the maintainer's file then we pick up those patches just like we already
do today and have done.