linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: remove stale log entries from fs/namei.c

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Message-ID: <CAGudoHEkZfPNN9XeFo84OMMEoKXn+iSRF-iSVqKSH_c7NOKFwg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:40:18 +0200
From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: remove stale log entries from fs/namei.c

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> > I'm thoroughly confused how this would be a meaningful April fools joke?
> >
> > The comments in that file are literally 20+ years old and no one has
> > ever bothered to add new updates there even though Al, Neil, Jeff,
> > myself and a lot of others probably rewrote that file a gazillion number
> > of times together or significantly or at least subtly changed the rules.
> >
>
> I agree they need to go. The joke part was not the removal, but the
> addition my own log entry stating the removal has happened.
>
> A genuine removal might have ran into opposition and I'm happy it did not.
>
> That said, my "submission" does not even have a commit message.
>
> Perhaps it would be most expedient if you committed the removal and
> repurposed part of your response. No need to mention in any capacity
> in such a change.
> --

I see I dropped a word: no need to mention me in the commit, just in case :)
-- 
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>