Re: [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates

From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Date: Fri Feb 26 2021 - 05:17:15 EST


Hello Luis,

On 2/25/21 11:21 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:10:45PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
If it were me, I would provide all the details of the situation to
Michael and ask him
to write the best description for this section.

Thanks Amir.

Yeah, it's tricky. Support was added and then dropped. Since stable
kernels will be picking this patch, maybe the best thing to do is to no
mention the generic cross-filesystem support at all...? Or simply say
that 5.3 temporarily supported it but that support was later dropped.

Michael (or Alejandro), would you be OK handling this yourself as Amir
suggested?

Could you please provide a more detailed history of what is to be documented?

Thanks,

Alex

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