Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iomap: propagate nowait to block layer

[Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>]

On 3/4/25 23:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:43:29PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 3/4/25 4:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 10:36:16AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> stable and actual production certainly do. Not that this should drive
>>>> upstream development in any way, it's entirely unrelated to the problem
>>>> at hand.
>>>
>>> And that's exactly what I'm saying.  Do the right thing instead of
>>> whining about backports to old kernels.
>>
>> Yep we agree on that, that's obvious. What I'm objecting to is your
>> delivery, which was personal rather than factual, which you should imho
>> apologize for.
> 
> I thus sincerly apologize for flaming Pavel for whining about

Again, pretty interesting choice of words, because it was more akin
to a tantrum. I hope you don't think you'd be taken seriously after
that, I can't, and not only from this conversation.

> backporting, but I'd still prefer he would have taken up that proposal
> on technical grounds as I see absolutely no alternatively to
> synchronously returning an error.

The "You have to do X" hardly reveals any details to claim "technical
grounds". Take stable out of the question, and I would still think
that a simple understandable fix for upstream is better than jumping
to a major rework right away.

>> And honestly pretty tiring that this needs to be said, still. Really.
> 
> An I'm really tired of folks whining about backporting instead of
> staying ontopic.



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Pavel Begunkov