Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 11:52 AM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> wrote: <...> > Luis, > > I suggest that you post v9 with my Reviewed-by and Olga's Tested-by > and address your patch to the VFS maintainer and fsdevel list without > the entire world and LKML in CC. Ok, v9 sent out according to your proposal: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210510090806.8988-1-lhenriques@xxxxxxx/ Thanks, Amir. Cheers, -- Luis > > Al, > > Would you mind picking this patch? > > Linus, > > There have been some voices on the discussion saying maybe this is not > a kernel regression that needs to be fixed, but a UAPI that is not being used > correctly by userspace. > > The proposed change reminds me a bit of recent changes to splice() from > special files. Since this specific UAPI discussion is a bit subtle and because > we got this UAPI wrong at least two times already, it would be great to get > your ACK on this proposed UAPI change. > > Thanks, > Amir. > > Latest v8 tested and reviewed by several developers on CC list: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210222102456.6692-1-lhenriques@xxxxxxx/ > > Proposed man page update: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210509213930.94120-12-alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx/
