Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] NFS client user xattr (RFC8276) support

Mkrtchyan, Tigran
2020-06-08T16:52:22Z

Hi Frank,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank van der Linden" <fllinden@amazon.com>
> To: "Tigran Mkrtchyan" <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de>
> Cc: "Anna Schumaker" <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>, "linux-nfs" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, "Trond Myklebust"
> <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 6:47:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] NFS client user xattr (RFC8276) support

> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 06:37:29PM +0200, Mkrtchyan, Tigran wrote:
>> Thanks for clarification.
>>
>> Tigran.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Anna Schumaker" <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
>> > To: "Tigran Mkrtchyan" <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de>
>> > Cc: "linux-nfs" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, "Trond Myklebust"
>> > <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>, "Frank van der Linden"
>> > <fllinden@amazon.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 6:15:06 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] NFS client user xattr (RFC8276) support
>>
>> > Hi Tigran,
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Mkrtchyan, Tigran
>> > <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dear maintainers,
>> >>
>> >> are those changes considered for 5.8?
>> >
>> > My understanding is that these patches will be targeting 5.9.
>> >
>> > Anna
>
> Hi Tigran,
>
> Since there is one remaining open issue on the server side changes that needs
> signoff from the general fs maintainers, I agreed with Bruce & Chuck to target
> 5.9, as the 5.8 merge window is currently already open, and all the activity
> is centered around it.
>
> For the client side, there are no open issues that were flagged, so from my
> side it's all ready to go - except for me to post a v3 rebased to
> the latest tree, which is easy to do.
>
> In other words, I think it's ok for the client side to go in to 5.8, but it
> probably makes more sense to have it go in to the same version as the server
> side, so that's what I proposed to Anna & Trond.

Makes sense.

Thanks,
Tigran.

>
> - Frank