Re: [PATCH] fs/pipe: stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration

Christian Brauner
2025-10-29T23:13:15Z

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 03:53:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 at 15:25, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I wasn't planning on doing any conversions for 6.18, but if it makes
> things easier for people to start doing this, I could certainly take
> just the "add new compiler flags" at any time.

Oh nice!

>
> Alternatively, maybe Rasmus/Nathan could just expose that commit
> 778740ee2d00 ("Kbuild: enable -fms-extensions") as a shared stable
> branch.
>
> That commit seems to be directly on top of 6.18-rc2, so people who
> want it could just pull that commit instead.

I'm fine either way. @Nathan, if you just want to give Linus the patch
if it's small enough or just want to give me a stable branch I can pull
I'll be content. Thanks!