linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] the rest of write_one

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Message-ID: <20230425023511.GO3390869@ZenIV>
Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2023 03:35:11 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] the rest of write_one_page() series

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 07:24:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 9:26 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > write_one_page series
> 
> Hmm. These pull requests really could have done with better descriptions.
> 
> Yes, I see what it's doing, but I'd really like to have better merge
> messages from the pull request.

Point...  With this one it would be along the lines of "the parts of
Christoph's write_one_page() elimination series that missed the previous
merge window".

pull-fd: "routine whack-a-mole for new unwarranted callers of fget() that
really ought to have been using fdget() - that kind of stuff keeps
cropping up and needs to be hunted down once in a while".

pull-old_dio: "For a while fs/direct-io.c had been trying to keep up with
filesystems' demands; eventually the tricky cases started to convert to
iomap-based variant, so some of the stuff added for e.g. btrfs sake had
become unused.  Longer term we want to get rid of fs/direct-io.c completely,
but for now let's at least undo some of the now-useless complexity there"

pull-nios2, pull-misc: really can't improve the descriptions in those...