Re: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26T10:15:42Z

Hello Luis,

On 2/25/21 11:21 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:10:45PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> If it were me, I would provide all the details of the situation to
>> Michael and ask him
>> to write the best description for this section.
>
> Thanks Amir.
>
> Yeah, it's tricky. Support was added and then dropped. Since stable
> kernels will be picking this patch, maybe the best thing to do is to no
> mention the generic cross-filesystem support at all...? Or simply say
> that 5.3 temporarily supported it but that support was later dropped.
>
> Michael (or Alejandro), would you be OK handling this yourself as Amir
> suggested?

Could you please provide a more detailed history of what is to be
documented?

Thanks,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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