From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7E782566 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2025 04:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1759551356; cv=none; b=Sy/Mk8Z44wQjdsTFvc3s2if6BDsBzXYH+VfYU9fEmcGjTNGy6bojS2ctuuoa3qTXApeQ7vfSSCRi/89iuuFu1B846OgDzklkCbHJwgo+qAyB87aSjIBRjaxmZ7Dm9aL0aPkEPSN07EDjJjSJiOAS9Ee7hKmClWP9JEsQtCMdjHo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1759551356; c=relaxed/simple; bh=KX7OHZjAgWli4h0u38QCpi612gc5E9omvA+JKdosKTc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Yvnm5AbB1dDYa7xDjr4ExwLcX4gTpZpV+4ekk+0Nfs56zhUOJteU1glYJZBobNl0/KKTwNCv0kpvN5rQkH7iRLCu+L8+cBPKLqoVpOH+RfOVN7bGXE+rZW2UgLLLiL8uxf8YlFdTAxA3CiT7cmmIKRpf84ggINSSaoAi7gUeiDY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=uCGg71qK; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="uCGg71qK" 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=4R2kyl7Ct8dUMzyD7ThtRGq6nDvxi8kOO1+mphzOkxI=; b=uCGg71qKRYSRr9ividiBKjYhW8 nuMfElVLK3qIG2s+PJstHqM7896ulw4LgY7AnawLlEuZ71Cs+yeNKn5L0DSvv/XWD8ALvYqPOHwhU zDc0FEbC5O6IGS65HGSVDVSQCBhhWU+vDftoJNeGxnXN+rkRVhrv3tB8dQBhJI/tiCpvTWlDDZE51 xY1K5E4qz7yVqG12b5G27NGumEQLQS4xQZUJ+JBtDQ5T0AK6chZ5Ke+oDGTubGIPpVWN3kxOQgtwk 1GT56n6WCf8XVZXk78EBKhccLUaNEXcQJiVN0EQ5GRL9ha1bVTLYPCskn+3Ispgw93dAOLTy0DOxx 0RzPhNOg==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1v4tgY-0000000DRX7-1CQl; Sat, 04 Oct 2025 04:15:54 +0000 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 21:15:54 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Eric Biggers Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] bcachefs out-of-tree series Message-ID: References: <20251004020049.918665-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251004020049.918665-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 10:00:42PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > A few patches for out-of-tree bcachefs. > > Since bcachefs was dropped from mainline, the kconfig tweaks for lib/ > are needed for it to build out of tree; they just give a few config > options names, so that distros can ensure they are enabled. No. The Linux kernel is about in-tree stuff. There are not exports, or especially Kconfigs that make things confusing for out of tree code. Just like everyone else you'll have to live with what people do in-tree for in-tree users.