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

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Message-ID: <20251029-wobei-rezept-bd53e76bb05b@brauner>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:25:04 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 10:38:28AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:21:42 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > > Now that we build with -fms-extensions, union pipe_index can be
> > > included as an anonymous member in struct pipe_inode_info, avoiding
> > > the duplication.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Applied to the vfs-6.19.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> > Patches in the vfs-6.19.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.
> > 
> > Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
> > new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.
> > 
> > It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
> > patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.
> > 
> > Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
> > trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.
> > 
> > tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
> > branch: vfs-6.19.misc
> > 
> > [1/1] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration
> >       https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/ade24f8214fe
> 
> As you may have noticed since I do not actually see this pushed, this
> change requires the '-fms-extensions' change that we are carrying in the
> kbuild tree for 6.19.
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/778740ee2d00e5c04d0c8ffd9c3beea89b1ec554

Meh, I thought it was already enabled.
Are you pushing this as a new feature for v6.19 or is Linus ok with
enabling this still during v6.18?