Re: [PATCH v2] xarray: clear the new head's parent before freeing the old head

[Nickolai Zeldovich]

Hi Lorenzo,

On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 11:03 AM Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's pretty 101, but please don't send new revisions in-reply-to older
> revisions or feedback [0].

Understood, will do.  (I was thinking that applied more to
multi-series patches, which indeed gets unwieldy.)

> Also, if somebody replies to you, reply back. You, not your LLM.

Indeed, I've been replying personally, though in a few cases I sent
the response in the notes of the v2 patch, in an attempt to send less
mail to lkml.

For context, I use an LLM to write Lean proofs of correctness, which
seems useful for cases where the patch is non-trivial (e.g., [2]).

> Also, you are flooding the kernel with patches, 5 series across 5
> subsystems over 2 hrs:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3Anickolai%40csail.mit.edu
>
> I already asked you once to stop doing this [1]. You've carried on.
> [...]
> I'm sure you're acting in good faith, so can I please ask you to engage
> with maintainers instead of ignoring us and treating our time as valueless?

Sorry about that.  I'm happy to send bug reports with clear userspace
reproducers, instead of patches, for any bugs that seem particularly
significant.  I'll also get in touch with the relevant maintainers to
see what, if anything, might be useful to them, rather than sending
individual issues/patches.

Nickolai.

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20261027125210.843589-1-nickolai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/