On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:16:58AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:58:18AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Honestly, I really wish you simply wouldn't send me "xfs" fixes that > > > aren't really xfs-specific at all. > > > > > > All the splice patches (and honestly, I feel some of the iomap ones > > > too) that have come in through the xfs tree should have been handled > > > separately as actual VFS patches. Or at least had acks from Al or > > > something. > > > > iomap came in through the XFS tree originally, and has been very much > > maintained in combo, even though we now have another user with gfs. > > > > Maybe we just need to make that official in MAINTAINERS? > > Yes, though who should be the official maintainer? You wrote most of > the iomap code; do you want to maintain it yourself? Or have people > funnel them wherever XFS patches go? :) Well, the original version is from Dave, although I'm not sure if much of that code is left. I think just maintaining it with XFS is a good idea. But if we need an explicit maintainer I can do it.
