Re: [PATCH v13 0/7] fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink

Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-21T05:55:15Z

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 02:35:02PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Sure, I'm not a maintainer and just the stand-in patch shepherd for
> a single release. However, being unable to cleanly merge code we
> need integrated into our local subsystem tree for integration
> testing because a patch dependency with another subsystem won't gain
> a stable commit ID until the next merge window is .... distinctly
> suboptimal.

Yes. Which is why we've taken a lot of mm patchs through other trees,
sometimes specilly crafted for that. So I guess in this case we'll
just need to take non-trivial dependencies into the XFS tree, and just
deal with small merge conflicts for the trivial ones.