Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 schrieb Dave Chinner: > > That being said, you'll note that unlike Dave, I have > > **not** thrown a hissy fit when btrfs grabbed bits from the inode > > field, even though quite a bit more bits allocated for the inode > > flags than the fallocate flags. > > IOWs, pointing out that the standard peer review process has been > bypassed is "throwing a hissy fit"? And Linus calls it "being a > pissy bitch". To me this is acknoweldgement of the fact that > something wrong was done, but the actors can't bring themselves to > directly admit it and so are resorting to name calling and > blame-shifting to discredit the messenger and therefore the message. +1 Anyway, the decision seems to be set, so indeed waste of energy to discuss it further. I agree the process is usually fluid. Cause I did not recognize a thread like this every day here on this list. And what happened, happened. But for the future I´d like that patches are posted. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html