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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] xfs: fixes for v4.20-rc6
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:58:18AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Honestly, I really wish you simply wouldn't send me "xfs" fixes that
> > aren't really xfs-specific at all.
> >
> > All the splice patches (and honestly, I feel some of the iomap ones
> > too) that have come in through the xfs tree should have been handled
> > separately as actual VFS patches. Or at least had acks from Al or
> > something.
>
> iomap came in through the XFS tree originally, and has been very much
> maintained in combo, even though we now have another user with gfs.
>
> Maybe we just need to make that official in MAINTAINERS?

Yes, though who should be the official maintainer? You wrote most of
the iomap code; do you want to maintain it yourself? Or have people
funnel them wherever XFS patches go? :)

--D

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