From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3634C4320A for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 18:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE87C60295 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 18:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238964AbhHNS0I (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:26:08 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:33399 "EHLO mail-pl1-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238921AbhHNS0H (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:26:07 -0400 Received: by mail-pl1-f169.google.com with SMTP id a20so16108166plm.0; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:25:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=V/UunbGPn7b9qeiuqDc7nUnLkftRm49BxQKgOeX29LI=; b=akaPopfFBXG5HUqZx5qGZGVNDoy0XKHbE/pvqZsrypYInpAp0MWYWeewxPwRRtu6d7 6zTTtjjnSCtR8Nd0c2aJ6C2SHADLVVdNwaQQS+FUlYwXgi4b3jt69Eed++tRnsUbekVf 3n6Ge8YU3bg2NeAevjnPzdhQpzQ7EwhAyaQhmyHonXC8YF9ycHY+/ZRq3tBfdBhE2FBc BbbLTu20jXHJwIqY6IZbjNyZgmB20tPRl3Dn6sbSItit5no3J+PcRqcqcPVj2elFjz5F 92gLNbrrj+79l5DjU2lDTXadbhCqINXBrAtprXsa82e9ErSVKlSXYRW+O85vWrvpQP3E 6ghA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5324/ocYh/T1vNfn1Hdfey4+hczur5gavfZ6Xl3OA1NKAG9kwTzy +oJpl7Zagd8AxCnG80AJYAd9q4MpiSA= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwqQsnbZrocVZuoL85A8ndRmQw0cVFw2+cnn8XXH0bJv9BAiXryV4q8SchXa9agAStxa7MrKQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:c386:b029:12d:4eda:9e42 with SMTP id g6-20020a170902c386b029012d4eda9e42mr6572776plg.57.1628965538283; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2601:647:4000:d7:ec45:c824:1851:d6df? ([2601:647:4000:d7:ec45:c824:1851:d6df]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u17sm6330929pfh.184.2021.08.14.11.25.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] configfs fix for Linux 5.14 To: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Bodo Stroesser Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Joel Becker , linux-fsdevel References: From: Bart Van Assche Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:25:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/14/21 9:27 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:00 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >> configfs fix for Linux 5.14 >> >> - fix to revert to the historic write behavior (Bart Van Assche) > > It would have been lovely to see what the problem was, but the commit > doesn't actually explain that. > > I suspect it's this > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/26/581 > > but there might have been more. Hi Linus, Bodo explained to me via a private email that the historic behavior is the behavior he needs for a patch that he is still working on. I'm not aware of any existing user space software that relies on the historic (non-POSIX) behavior of configfs writes. Bart.