[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:00:15 +0800 Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

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> On 4/18/23 8:56 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:37:06PM +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
> >> Andrew picked ocfs2 patches into -mm tree before.
> > Yup and that's fine obviously, but this belongs to fs/ and we're aiming
> > to take fs/ stuff through the dedicated fs trees going forward.
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> Either is fine for me.
> Hi Andrew, what's your opinion?

I've been wrangling ocfs2 for over a decade and this is the first I've
heard of this proposal.

Who is "we", above?  What was their reasoning?

Who will be responsible for ocfs2 patches?  What will be their workflow
and review and test processes?

Overall, what benefit does this proposal offer the ocfs2 project?