Re: [PATCH 07/14] nvme-fabrics: Annotate nvmf_lookup_transport() with __must_hold_shared()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 12:37:51PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 11/2/26 11:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> I'm only seeing this one of 14 patches, so I have no idea what to do
>> with it.
>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> If I have to repost this patch series I will Cc you on the entire
> series. The cover letter and the rest of this patch series are
> available here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1793654853.git.bvanassche@xxxxxxx/
>
> As explained in the cover letter, the purpose of this patch series is
> to prevent that lockdep_assert_held() suppresses the need to annotate
> the functions in which it occurs with __must_hold().

So what is the point of the series?  Do you want individual patches
in the maintainer trees?  Do they even work standalone?  Do you want
ACKs to merge them together?   That's the reason why you should never
ever selectively CC anyone - persons or lists.  It just does not work.