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On 19.03.2020 13:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:08:58PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> I just don't understand the reason nothing happens :(
>> I see newly-sent patches comes fast into block tree.
>> But there is only silence... I grepped over Documentation,
>> and there is no special rules about block tree. So,
>> it looks like standard rules should be applyable.
>>
>> Some comments? Some requests for reworking? Some personal reasons to ignore my patches?
> 
> I'm still completely opposed to the magic overloading using a flag.
> That is just a bad design waiting for trouble to happen.

This flag is suggested by Martin Petersen, while the first version of the patchset was based
on a separate operation.

Since I see only Jens in MAINTAINERS:

BLOCK LAYER
M:      Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
L:      linux-block@vger.kernel.org
T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git
S:      Maintained
F:      block/
F:      drivers/block/
F:      kernel/trace/blktrace.c
F:      lib/sbitmap.c

I expect his comments about final design of this, because both you and Martin are maintainers
of another subsystems. I don't want rework this many times until Jens says he wants some third
design.

I think I'm pretty polite and patient in my waiting, while Jens completely ignores me by some
reasons, which are completely unclear for me. I don't think this is completely polite in relation
to me.

Kirill