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 32B322868A9; Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:52:56 +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=1776923578; cv=none; b=GHw09UVK1a22UzD505X24hbJzzz4Pw9CnTq1FlhPwwCLiD1ikzgFR69kIQo6VnA0tXpHF9CspV+O0hZZXVZdxyKpyhVxEfLUNnsFniQXfkuT16vY2uxzx1bf6p3ayruZEtCCG1dXPORIkMMFityZoQbEze5HBr2XNoE6GTsMXCs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776923578; c=relaxed/simple; bh=IzCwPU5c6Gq1BGhh1bSpdiyTomucNDB4qIjOeZl0cpQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=nJ4u6wPibtEhfoWDBWaiZjbnsoECYQ617yYyzpO/AoY/j/S0Ky6MYkTNyDWkY8Zv+i/4FD3j3+2jiBnB3uG4i9tDWSrfhX4ceOPbj2KYCWDSrmSjIhggDdxDlPYdNqeVhy1F5AJRJXeTiPpOG1LV7JAUj196cOwW5ttvLhw0SUk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (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=oqW5LJG9; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (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="oqW5LJG9" 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=9rvPFEC2MVsXs7hPa8zHFKo530p+I6oXYlmvjIl2f6c=; b=oqW5LJG9fBwRuI/xBRFobENbPC E2uvZY4hTPcJzshqHMNSCNbAq1dXR74jh5AhK6rjwJQopAwWdBcjljK/TRLi4yKxlGuQUND23+U8U w5Zkbj04KaIgmIEimRnmZGsrkmc9AMWznDHn4iFp/gJ+S7Wu9MyD79MuzxqNJa8IhFk2I4Y9/iTJ5 AUSWR3mcrOicr1F20MyexfpWI0aRj2+sdb+t1QJtkJxTvNn7Uub/5MGetU1EoNeTpgEUYEx53Lf4R 5ndHsoHJi23cbvWDVNz5n8B0GgeU76CG/iM63b2QSXHz+1hzOM3mbKOjt0jsx3G9XerWvX2ydjtku rEQfaDWw==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wFmze-0000000B5Fr-2IF8; Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:52:54 +0000 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:52:54 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stefan Metzmacher Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Tom Talpey , Steve French , Linus Torvalds , Namjae Jeon , Ilya Dryomov , Alex Markuze , Viacheslav Dubeyko , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Layton , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] smb: smbdirect: move fs/smb/common/smbdirect/ to fs/smb/smbdirect/ Message-ID: References: <20260419192018.3046449-1-metze@samba.org> <9cb0901c-18c5-4858-941c-3b37ee112af9@samba.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@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: <9cb0901c-18c5-4858-941c-3b37ee112af9@samba.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: > > Why is this not in net/smbdirect/ or driver/infiniband/ulp/smdirect? > > Yes, I also thought about net/smbdirect. > > As IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT or PF_SMBDIRECT will be the next step, > see the open discussion here: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/cover.1775571957.git.metze@samba.org/ > (I'll follow with that discussion soon) Seems like it is the right fit then. > I was just unsure about the consequences, e.g. would > the maintainer/pull request flow have to change in that case? > Or would Steve be able to take the changes via his trees? > Any I also didn't want to offend anybody, so I just took > what Linus proposed. You might want to ask the sunrpc or ceph maintainers as they have a similar split.