Message-ID: <03707213-395c-4b3f-bf6d-3aca392a8ec1@linux.dev>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:56:45 +0800
From: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong.chenxiaosong@...ux.dev>
To: Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>,
 Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...ba.org>, sfrench@...ba.org,
 Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@...inos.cn>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2 1/6] smb/server: fix return value of smb2_read()

Hi Steve and Namjae,

The "Fixes:" tags of the first five patches in this patchset are the same:

Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")

Thanks,
ChenXiaoSong.

On 10/19/25 7:13 PM, ChenXiaoSong wrote:
> Hi Steve and Markus,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been ill and sleeping a lot, so I only 
> just saw your emails.
> 
> Steve, thank you for your understanding of Chinese naming tradition.
> 
> Markus, thank you too for your other suggestions (such as the suggestion 
> of adding a "Fixes:" tag).
> 
> I am Chinese, and my Chinese name is "陈孝松", the pinyin is 
> "ChenXiaoSong". The first word is my family name, the second indicates 
> my generation(the second word of my siblings' names is the same), and 
> the third is my given name.
> 
> In China, no characters (such as spaces or punctuation) are used between 
> the word of a name.
> 
> Thanks again to Steve for your understanding of Chinese naming tradition.
> 
> Thanks!
> ChenXiaoSong.
> 
> On 10/19/25 5:47 PM, Steve French wrote:
>>  > My name pattern recognition would find a display like “… Chen Xiao 
>> Song”
>> clearer eventually.
>>
>> The convention of whether and where a space is used in approximating 
>> an Asian name in western ASCII characters apparently varies by 
>> country, but apparently natively in many Asian languages there would 
>> be no spaces so there does not appear to be a rule on this for 
>> Americanized (or westernized) Asian names. In addition the convention 
>> of whether given name precedes family name is reversed in some asian 
>> countries. In general a person has some freedom in how they wish to be 
>> "named" in git commits eg in western languages whether a nickname or 
>> strict legal name is used.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 3:50 AM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de 
>> <mailto:Markus.Elfring@....de>> wrote:
>>
>>      >> Do you care for naming requirements which are indicated by
>>      >> the Developer's Certificate of Origin?
>>      >
>>      > Generally, these are good to follow for multiple reasons,
>>
>>     Thanks for another bit of positive indication.
>>
>>
>>      > but I still don't see your point.
>>
>>     I hope that remaining communication difficulties can be resolved 
>> better.
>>
>>     We are
>>
>>
>>      > If "Markus Elfring" chooses to use a (valid) email address
>>     "Markus.Elfring@....de <mailto:Markus.Elfring@....de> …" which is
>>     basically the same is his name how is that any different from
>>     "ChenXiaoSong" choosing to use a (valid) email address that is
>>     almost identical to the name ie "chenxiaosong@...inos.cn
>>     <mailto:chenxiaosong@...inos.cn> <mailto:chenxiaosong@...inos.cn
>>     <mailto:chenxiaosong@...inos.cn>>" obviously this is not using an
>>     Asian character set, but it appears accurate and I don't see
>>     anywhere that it violates. …
>>
>>     You stressed constraints for the email address selection.
>>
>>     I dared to point a concern out for the representation of a personal
>>     name.
>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name <https://
>>     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name>
>>
>>     We are occasionally struggling with the information
>>     “using a known identity (sorry, no anonymous contributions.)”,
>>     don't we?
>>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
>>     tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.18-rc1#n440
>>     <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
>>     tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.18-rc1#n440>
>>
>>     My name pattern recognition would find a display like “… Chen Xiao 
>> Song”
>>     clearer eventually.
>>     * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_(surname) <https://
>>     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_(surname)>
>>     * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_(surname) <https://
>>     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_(surname)>
>>     * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>>     Song_%28disambiguation%29#People_with_the_name <https://
>>     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_%28disambiguation%29#People_with_the_name>
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Markus
>>
> 

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