Re: [GIT PULL] Folio fixes for 5.18

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:22:09PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:08:48PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > Matthew, can you please always CC linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for any
> > patches that touch code under fs/btrfs? I've only noticed your folio
> > updates in this pull request. Some of the changes are plain API switch,
> > that's fine but I want to know about that, some changes seem to slightly
> > modify logic that I'd really like to review and there are several missed
> > opportunities to fix coding style. Thanks.
> 
> I'm sorry, that's an unreasonable request.  There's ~50 filesystems
> that use address_space_operations and cc'ing individual filesystems
> on VFS-wide changes isn't feaasible.

FYI, for these kinds of global API changes I tend to add all the
mainling lists, but drop the multiple maintainers that would blow this
up even futher.  But even that lead to occasional complaints.



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