From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B94C433EF for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 05:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1384599AbiDUF6B (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2022 01:58:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45998 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1384587AbiDUF56 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2022 01:57:58 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B2CE64F3; Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:55:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=PDPyNefwFTnQFkVxZr1As8+DuLwtBUhU/XlRcJQNYMI=; b=siphIxP1DS6IkuiurROIaxgmqo ZAYdv2E2MCNs3VA4IZqPLE71MYsZcFkGn4AswSfXtohbHKXNjqhoPa5H6JzuPWdyvMKPzokOK+tr8 oPmRk+clL9ITZGvjyjHhGFIYongd4N9S/6rxbdjSA4rlb0fOK+arIA4ihDMXQPmGPNFmV7RG6bqbN h9ivQ1Q/fifUrosUuR+KI0mhmasZyWh79wAqYrhOXKwp3ehpdIyL6mI0oINHn0G2riNFJYurJZF8E 3SG0uGeREez8uPIFfFpWl3sudYe+ZFztfp9w0gDTz54HR2PmDW4TLgXnc7roxp+VYiacwEqIwmCio CH58+arw==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nhPmN-00BcFk-Rs; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 05:54:59 +0000 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:54:59 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Chinner Cc: Dan Williams , Shiyang Ruan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-xfs , Linux NVDIMM , Linux MM , linux-fsdevel , "Darrick J. Wong" , Christoph Hellwig , Jane Chu , Andrew Morton , Naoya Horiguchi Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 0/7] fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Message-ID: References: <20220419045045.1664996-1-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com> <20220421012045.GR1544202@dread.disaster.area> <86cb0ada-208c-02de-dbc9-53c6014892c3@fujitsu.com> <20220421043502.GS1544202@dread.disaster.area> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220421043502.GS1544202@dread.disaster.area> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.