On 2021/3/22 6:23, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:31 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> zhangyi (F) (3): >> ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout >> ext4: do not iput inode under running transaction in ext4_rename() >> ext4: do not try to set xattr into ea_inode if value is empty > > Side note: this is obviously entirely up to the author, but I think it > would be nice if we would encourage people to use their native names > if/when they want to. > > Maybe this "zhangyi (F)" is how they _want_ to write their name in the > kernel, and that's obviously fine if so. > > But at the same time, coming from Finland, I remember how people who > had the "odd" characters (åäö) in their name ended up replacing them > with the US-ASCII version (generally "aa" "ae" and "oe"), and it > always just looked bad to a native speaker. Particularly annoying in > public contexts. > > At the same time, for the same reason, I can also understand people > not wanting to even expose those characters at all, because then > non-native speakers invariably messed it up even worse... > > Anyway, I think and hope that we have the infrastructure to do it > right not just for Latin1, but the more complex non-Western character > sets too. > > And as a result should possibly encourage people to use their native > names if they want to. At least make people aware that it _should_ > work. > > Again, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, and in this case "zhangyi > (F) <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>" is just what zhangyi prefers simply because > it's easier/more convenient. > > But I just wanted to mention it, because we _do_ have examples of it > working. Not many, but some: > > git log --pretty="%an" --since=2.years | sort -u | tail > > including examples of having the Westernized name in parenthesis for > the "use that one if you can't do the real one" case.. > Hi, Linus. I will use my real name "Yi Zhang" next time. Thanks, Yi.
