linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] fs/ecryptfs: Replace kmap{,_atomic}() with kmap_local

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Message-ID: <20230630-entkriminalisierung-girlanden-6bcaf5502f88@brauner>
Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:38:40 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>,
        Tyler Hicks <code@...icks.com>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] fs/ecryptfs: Replace kmap{,_atomic}() with
 kmap_local_page()

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 07:31:07PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > On mercoledì 26 aprile 2023 19:22:20 CEST Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > kmap() and kmap_atomic() have been deprecated in favor of
> > > kmap_local_page().
> > > 
> > > Therefore, replace kmap() and kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page().
> > 
> > After two months from submission, I haven't received any comments on this 
> > short series yet, except for a "Reviewed by" tag from Ira on patch 1/3 only.
> > 
> > I would appreciate any comments/reviews/acks and would especially like to know 
> > if anything is preventing these patches from being applied.
> > 
> 
> eCryptfs is in "Odd Fixes" status.  See the thread
> https://lore.kernel.org/ecryptfs/ZB4nYykRg6UwZ0cj@sequoia/T/#u
> 
> I would suggest that if Tyler is not responding, that Christian or Al take these
> patches through the VFS tree instead.
> 
> FWIW, I took a quick look at these three patches, and all look correct.  I'm not
> sure I want to give a formal R-b, as I don't want people to start bothering me
> about eCryptfs stuff because they saw my name on it :-)

Ah well, you saw right through that. :)
That usually means you've been doing kernel development for way too long...