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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:15:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:45 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Linus, sorry for sending this directly through you, instead of going
> through some other tree, but trying to get this upstream through the
> linux-fsdevel list / patch-review simply is not working.

Well, the filesystem maintainer sending their patches to me as a pull
request is actually the norm rather than the exception when it comes
to filesystems.

It's a bit different for drivers, but that's because while we have
multiple filesystems, we have multiple _thousand_ drivers, so on the
driver side I really don't want individual driver maintainers to all
send me their individual pull requests - that just wouldn't scale.

So for individual drivers, we have subsystem maintainers, but for
individual filesystems we generally don't.

(When something then touches the *common* vfs code, that's a different
thing - but something like this vboxsf thing this pull request looks
normal to me).

Even with a maintainer sending me pull requests I do obviously prefer
to see indications that other people have acked/tested/reviewed the
patches, but this is fairly small, simple and straightforward, and
absolutely nothing in this pull request makes me go "oh, that's
sketchy".

So no need to apologize at all, this all looks very regular.

               Linus