From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:43:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20141014154349.ca831a4d1e5c1747779552ec@linux-foundation.org> References: <1412287587-5392-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <1412324370-959-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <20141006141227.GF7526@quack.suse.cz> <5432E921.7040306@gmx.de> <20141007180559.GC30038@quack.suse.cz> <54342FC2.7030509@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Kara , Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Paris , John McCutchan , Robert Love , Michael Kerrisk To: Heinrich Schuchardt Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46983 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755826AbaJNWnu (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:43:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <54342FC2.7030509@gmx.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:24:02 +0200 Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > the patch in > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/3/56 > and cited below was reviewed by Jan Kara. > Jan wondered why we generate events for FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, so other people will wonder the same thing. We should tell them. Via code comments and/or changelogging. Any question which a reviewer asks should be viewed as a defect in the patch. The patch isn't finished until people can read it without having questions.