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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	smfrench@gmail.com, senozhatsky@chromium.org, hyc.lee@gmail.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, hch@infradead.org,
	ronniesahlberg@gmail.com, aurelien.aptel@gmail.com,
	sandeen@sandeen.net, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
	colin.king@canonical.com, rdunlap@infradead.org,
	willy@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] cifsd: introduce new SMB3 kernel server
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:57:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210428235702.GE7400@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z06vyi6.fsf@suse.com>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:24:17AM +0200, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> > I'd rather see multiple patches that were actually functional at each
> > stage: e.g., start with a server that responds to some sort of rpc-level
> > ping but does nothing else, then add basic file IO, etc.
> >
> > I don't know if that's practical.
> 
> Although it would certainly be nice I don't think it's realistic to
> expect this kind of retro-logical-rewriting. AFAIK the other new
> fs-related addition (ntfs patchset) is using the same trick of adding
> the Makefile at the end after it was suggested on the mailing list. So
> there's a precedent.

OK, I wondered if that might be the case.

I don't love it, but, fair enough, maybe that's the best compromise.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20210422003835epcas1p246c40c6a6bbc0e9f5d4ccf9b69bef0d7@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2021-04-22  0:28 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] cifsd: introduce new SMB3 kernel server Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 01/10] cifsd: add document Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 02/10] cifsd: add server handler Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 03/10] cifsd: add trasport layers Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 04/10] cifsd: add authentication Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 05/10] cifsd: add smb3 engine part 1 Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 06/10] cifsd: add smb3 engine part 2 Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] cifsd: add oplock/lease cache mechanism Namjae Jeon
2021-04-28 20:16     ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-04-29  0:36       ` Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 08/10] cifsd: add file operations Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 09/10] cifsd: add Kconfig and Makefile Namjae Jeon
2021-04-22  0:28   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] MAINTAINERS: add cifsd kernel server Namjae Jeon
2021-04-27 20:53   ` [PATCH v2 00/10] cifsd: introduce new SMB3 " J. Bruce Fields
2021-04-27 21:38     ` Namjae Jeon
2021-04-28 19:13   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-04-29  0:07     ` Namjae Jeon
2021-04-28 19:18   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-04-28 20:19     ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-04-28 20:40       ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-04-28 22:24         ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-04-28 23:57           ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2021-04-29  0:18             ` Namjae Jeon

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