Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iomap: propagate nowait to block layer

[Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>]

On 3/5/25 00:14, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 3/4/25 23:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:43:29PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 3/4/25 4:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 10:36:16AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> stable and actual production certainly do. Not that this should drive
>>>>> upstream development in any way, it's entirely unrelated to the problem
>>>>> at hand.
>>>>
>>>> And that's exactly what I'm saying.  Do the right thing instead of
>>>> whining about backports to old kernels.
>>>
>>> Yep we agree on that, that's obvious. What I'm objecting to is your
>>> delivery, which was personal rather than factual, which you should imho
>>> apologize for.
>>
>> I thus sincerly apologize for flaming Pavel for whining about
> 
> Again, pretty interesting choice of words, because it was more akin
> to a tantrum. I hope you don't think you'd be taken seriously after
> that, I can't, and not only from this conversation.
> 
>> backporting, but I'd still prefer he would have taken up that proposal
>> on technical grounds as I see absolutely no alternatively to
>> synchronously returning an error.
> 
> The "You have to do X" hardly reveals any details to claim "technical
> grounds". Take stable out of the question, and I would still think
> that a simple understandable fix for upstream is better than jumping
> to a major rework right away.

That is _if_ there is a simple fix, but your argument was that
it's "not very accurate", which is not very useful.

>>> And honestly pretty tiring that this needs to be said, still. Really.
>>
>> An I'm really tired of folks whining about backporting instead of
>> staying ontopic.

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Pavel Begunkov