Re: [GIT PULL] bcache revert

[Kent Overstreet]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:47:45PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 08/31/2015 02:42 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:25:25PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>Kent, can we cut down on the victim playing? I said it should have been
> >>posted, did I not? And usually patches like that ARE always posted, but this
> >>beat the series of patches that it was a pre-patch for. Hence it just didn't
> >>get posted, and that was a mistake, after a private discussion where it
> >>ended up being cherry-picked for inclusion. Even for a trivial patch like
> >>this. But it's not the end of the world, it's not like I rewrote your
> >>architecture or grand caching design.
> >
> >You're backpedalling and trying not to admit it. Look, would you do it again or
> >not? Because yes of course I'm going to call you out on it if you think this is
> >an acceptable thing to do, which is certainly what you started off saying.
> 
> Kent, this is starting to get into playground territory. Should it have been
> posted/cc'ed to you? Yes. Do I think it's a big deal that it wasn't, given
> the nature of the patch? No. Is/was the patch the right thing to do? Yes.

If you maintain that this is how you want to do things - I'm out, you can take
over as bcache maintainer.
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