Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/kernel_read_file: add support for duplicate detection

Christian Brauner
2023-05-25T07:02:15Z

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 02:52:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 2:36 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Add support for a new call which allows to detect duplicate requests
> > for each inode passed.
>
> No.
>
> This is all disgusting.
>
> Stop adding horrific code for some made-up load that isn't real.

Also, this series adds non-trivial amount of code to fs/ without ever
having Cced fsdevel. As I told the bpf folks already if fs/ code is
touched fsdevel should absolutely be Cced, please.

It's literally also the first thing that get_maintainers.pl spews out.