From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Steigerwald Subject: Re: [PATCH, 3.7-rc7, RESEND] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 10:24:41 +0100 Message-ID: <201212061024.41760.Martin@lichtvoll.de> References: <1353366267-15629-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20121205173415.GI18885@thunk.org> <20121206004234.GA27172@dastard> (sfid-20121206_101901_489446_B4DF2252) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-fsdevel" To: Dave Chinner Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121206004234.GA27172@dastard> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 schrieb Dave Chinner: > > That being said, you'll note that unlike Dave, I have > > **not** thrown a hissy fit when btrfs grabbed bits from the inode > > field, even though quite a bit more bits allocated for the inode > > flags than the fallocate flags. >=20 > IOWs, pointing out that the standard peer review process has been > bypassed is "throwing a hissy fit"? And Linus calls it "being a > pissy bitch". To me this is acknoweldgement of the fact that > something wrong was done, but the actors can't bring themselves to > directly admit it and so are resorting to name calling and > blame-shifting to discredit the messenger and therefore the message. +1 Anyway, the decision seems to be set, so indeed waste of energy to disc= uss=20 it further. I agree the process is usually fluid. Cause I did not recognize a threa= d=20 like this every day here on this list. And what happened, happened. But for the future I=B4d like that patches are posted. Ciao, --=20 Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7