On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 08:20:01AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 12:36:20PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > But this was all right there in the original commit message. And to be > > honest Christoph, these kinds of drive by "let's focus on the easiest > > thing to measure" comments are what I expect from you at this point, > > I'm really just curious what the motivation is. The code does not > seem much cleaner to me as the user of the API, and it doesn't reduce > code size. Maybe there is a good reason for it, but then it needs to > be very clearly stated and you need to sell people on it. Yeah, you're not trying to advance the discussion here, you're just restating your original position. I heard you, and I responded. > Starting to get personal instead tends to not help to convince your > reviewers that it's really useful in general. I know you and others like to talk a lot about what you want as maintainers and reviewers - but I find that the people who are the loudest and the most authoritarian in that respect tend not to be the people who drive discussions forward in productive ways.