On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 05:03:06PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 03:28:47PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > Hi Kent, > > > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 11:25:55PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > here's the bcachefs pull request, for 6.6. Hopefully everything > > > outstanding from the previous PR thread has been resolved; the block > > > layer prereqs are in now via Jens's tree and the dcache helper has a > > > reviewed-by from Christain. > > > > I pulled this into mainline locally and did an LLVM build, which found > > an immediate issue. It appears the bcachefs codes uses zero length > > It looks like this series hasn't been in -next at all? That seems like a > pretty important step. > > Also, when I look at the PR, it seems to be a branch history going > back _years_. For this kind of a feature, I'd expect a short series of > "here's the code" in incremental additions (e.g. look at the x86 shstk > series), not the development history from it being out of tree -- this > could easily lead to ugly bisection problems, etc. Chris already commented on this, but - we really want the full history available, that's important context for anyone working on the code going forward. Brian was just mentioning digging through the history for context in the meeting last Tuesday, and I've been going to a lot of effort to make sure every commit builds and runs.
