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SubjectRe: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:13 PM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
<alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Luis,
>
> On 2/25/21 11:21 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:10:45PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >> If it were me, I would provide all the details of the situation to
> >> Michael and ask him
> >> to write the best description for this section.
> >
> > Thanks Amir.
> >
> > Yeah, it's tricky. Support was added and then dropped. Since stable
> > kernels will be picking this patch, maybe the best thing to do is to no
> > mention the generic cross-filesystem support at all...? Or simply say
> > that 5.3 temporarily supported it but that support was later dropped.
> >
> > Michael (or Alejandro), would you be OK handling this yourself as Amir
> > suggested?
>
> Could you please provide a more detailed history of what is to be
> documented?
>

Is this detailed enough? ;-)

https://lwn.net/Articles/846403/

Thanks,
Amir.

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