Re: [PATCH] fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Mon Jan 12 2026 - 13:40:00 EST


On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:16:54 +0900 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:45:18 +0800 Zhiyu Zhang <zhiyuzhang999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi OGAWA,
> >>
> >> Sorry, I thought the further merge request would be done by the maintainers.
> >>
> >> What should I do then?
> >
> > That's OK - I have now taken a copy of the patch mainly to keep track
> > of it. It won't get lost.
> >
> > I thought Christian was handling fat patches now, but perhaps that's a
> > miscommunication?
>
> Hm, I was thinking Andrew is still handling the fat specific patch, and
> Christian is only handling patches when vfs related.
>
> Let me know if I need to do something.

OK, thanks, seems I misremembered.