linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wg6mxof1=egFUDTNEj3__tCWLTbKjYLzxipVCn6ndXr+g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:48:13 -1000
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 06:44, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Yeah, this would also be a good conversion example so we could include
> it in kbuild-next with the appropriate Acks. We probably do not want to
> take too many other conversions in the initial pull. If people really
> want to use this in other places for 6.19, we should probably do a
> shared branch for these changes that maintainers could pull into their
> own trees.

Yes. This is a good example of what the use case is and why we're
doing this extension. So Ack both on including it as such, and on the
whole "let's not go overboard with other conversions" thing.

             Linus