From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754910Ab2LFJY4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 04:24:56 -0500 Received: from mondschein.lichtvoll.de ([194.150.191.11]:45220 "EHLO mail.lichtvoll.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754891Ab2LFJYx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 04:24:53 -0500 From: Martin Steigerwald To: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH, 3.7-rc7, RESEND] fs: revert commit bbdd6808 to fallocate UAPI Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 10:24:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.7.0-rc8-f2fs-tp520+; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-fsdevel" References: <1353366267-15629-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20121205173415.GI18885@thunk.org> <20121206004234.GA27172@dastard> (sfid-20121206_101901_489446_B4DF2252) In-Reply-To: <20121206004234.GA27172@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <201212061024.41760.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 schrieb Dave Chinner: > > That being said, you'll note that unlike Dave, I have > > **not** thrown a hissy fit when btrfs grabbed bits from the inode > > field, even though quite a bit more bits allocated for the inode > > flags than the fallocate flags. > > IOWs, pointing out that the standard peer review process has been > bypassed is "throwing a hissy fit"? And Linus calls it "being a > pissy bitch". To me this is acknoweldgement of the fact that > something wrong was done, but the actors can't bring themselves to > directly admit it and so are resorting to name calling and > blame-shifting to discredit the messenger and therefore the message. +1 Anyway, the decision seems to be set, so indeed waste of energy to discuss it further. I agree the process is usually fluid. Cause I did not recognize a thread like this every day here on this list. And what happened, happened. But for the future IŽd like that patches are posted. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7