From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E1EE1F92E; Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.95.11.211 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776230970; cv=none; b=f9IWkRVVHvjWY0qG/blo8FH5yCASggo1Tn6nc/kAMVPD4ujTg9v4gAO/a4GRXhd243FKtnZguD0noe4EP0t/arENX97vJf5OKTYDdxUAfJL8pyQcwCBxB8KAl4ro7Ch5vD/I56bHkxBl7KeswSxX0I3f7qQJ7S7ridsLqmG7uCc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776230970; c=relaxed/simple; bh=A5ymAytPJqONoKE2CgJqhBX5EEV4sZwuOHV8kE2E2i4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=CVOedfdw7cTzBb825nchuT2hzIwHP1zlpTb82twelF47cC36O8B72BF98inv35e1UxKX8MA7Yc50Sa+muk81wJVhD8vggz6jyFnwZ0kgJHd4fuqIe5dZwRvr2NOGe8XSltYgVXHruPcxuJXjge+bEc7F6DugwjSFtlAkJxihI44= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lst.de; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.95.11.211 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lst.de Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id BBD0B68BFE; Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:29:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:29:25 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christian Brauner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Chuck Lever , NeilBrown , Olga Kornievskaia , Dai Ngo , Tom Talpey , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Chuck Lever , Jeff Layton , Amir Goldstein , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: cleanup block-style layouts exports v2 Message-ID: <20260415052925.GC26559@lst.de> References: <20260401144059.160746-1-hch@lst.de> <8bef4d4e-1c0d-451d-8854-ed0cba27ee1f@app.fastmail.com> <20260409-schwalben-neutralisieren-fb5a184e5049@brauner> <20260410111007.GA10292@lst.de> <20260414-ausbrechen-gemixt-ff09f46bdad2@brauner> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260414-ausbrechen-gemixt-ff09f46bdad2@brauner> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 12:01:39PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 01:10:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 03:26:09PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > > > Christian, are you OK if I take this series through the NFSD tree? > > > > > > Hm, I generally prefer infrastructure to go through the VFS tree. > > > You can get a stable branch ofc. > > > > Communicating this earlier would be helpful. If we switch to a new > > tree base we're going to miss this merge window. > > The series was sent on April 1 so with about 2 weeks before the merge > window... If your series isn't ready by -rc5 what is it doing being > merged for the coming merge window is the other side of the question. So > afaict, there's no hurry. That's a very weird generic standard. I know a lot of subsystem don't take complex core changes until a bit before the cutoff, but killing 3 weeks of the merge window for everything is odd. Even more I'm not even why we're having that discussion - exportfs has it's own maintainers, one of whom ACKed this including the whole tree discussion.