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

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Message-ID: <20251029-mailen-neueinstellung-3e0d445134c2@brauner>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:42:21 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	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, Oct 23, 2025 at 06:48:13AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

WHAT??? We're actually doing that? This is fscking lovely! I thought
this would never fly and so I actually never proposed it. Who do I have
to hug for doing this? I'm a very happy boy right now.