Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] hfsplus: introduce iomap-based file_operations

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 05:07:11PM -0700, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-09-18 at 15:39 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 04:39:40PM -0700, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > > This patch
> > 
> > Patch descriptions are not supposed to start with "this patch".
> > By the time this fets into git, it isn't a patch any more :)
> 
> It depends on how we can defines a patch. From my point of view, patch
> is a piece of code that can be applied on some state of git tree. But
> even if this piece of code was adopted and applied into the git tree,
> then it could be extracted as patch again. So, it exists as patch
> forever in the git tree because it is incremental change of the tree.

Either way the kernel style asks this not to be done.  See
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.