On 1/9/22 2:25 PM, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 10:01:11AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 1/7/22 1:58 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: >>> On 1/6/22 13:41, Eric Biggers wrote: >>>> Jens, any reason you haven't applied this series yet? It looks like you've been >>>> applying other patches. To be clear, I've been expecting that this would go in >>>> through the block tree, rather than the docs tree. >>> >>> We are close to the v5.17 merge window so this is not a good time for a maintainer to >>> apply a large patch series. If Jens does not reply I propose to repost this patch >>> series after the v5.17 merge window has closed (three weeks from now?). >> >> I'm fine with it, but it should probably just go through the doc tree. > > I think it makes much more sense for subsystems to be responsible for > their own documentation; that's why patch 8 in this series adds the > block layer documentation to the block layer MAINTAINERS entry. Do > you disagree with that? I agree, but then we often end up with merge conflicts between the doc tree and others. That's why it's usually punted there. As a maintainer, any conflicts is a pain in the butt to deal with, something the contributor doesn't necessarily see or understand. If there are no conflicts this time around, I can queue them up. -- Jens Axboe
