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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 fixes for v5.12
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From:   "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:33:54 +0800
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On 2021/3/22 6:23, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:31 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> zhangyi (F) (3):
>>       ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout
>>       ext4: do not iput inode under running transaction in ext4_rename()
>>       ext4: do not try to set xattr into ea_inode if value is empty
> 
> Side note: this is obviously entirely up to the author, but I think it
> would be nice if we would encourage people to use their native names
> if/when they want to.
> 
> Maybe this "zhangyi (F)" is how they _want_ to write their name in the
> kernel, and that's obviously fine if so.
> 
> But at the same time, coming from Finland, I remember how people who
> had the "odd" characters (åäö) in their name ended up replacing them
> with the US-ASCII version (generally "aa" "ae" and "oe"), and it
> always just looked bad to a native speaker. Particularly annoying in
> public contexts.
> 
> At the same time, for the same reason, I can also understand people
> not wanting to even expose those characters at all, because then
> non-native speakers invariably messed it up even worse...
> 
> Anyway, I think and hope that we have the infrastructure to do it
> right not just for Latin1, but the more complex non-Western character
> sets too.
> 
> And as a result should possibly encourage people to use their native
> names if they want to. At least make people aware that it _should_
> work.
> 
> Again, maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, and in this case "zhangyi
> (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>" is just what zhangyi prefers simply because
> it's easier/more convenient.
> 
> But I just wanted to mention it, because we _do_ have examples of it
> working. Not many, but some:
> 
>     git log --pretty="%an" --since=2.years | sort -u | tail
> 
> including examples of having the Westernized name in parenthesis for
> the "use that one if you can't do the real one" case..
> 
Hi, Linus.

I will use my real name "Yi Zhang" next time.

Thanks,
Yi.