Re: [PATCH mm-unstable] mm: Fix uffd-wp bit loss when batching file folio unmapping

[Dev Jain]

On 16/01/26 3:18 pm, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 03:10:23PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
>> On 16/01/26 2:09 pm, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>> I saw that the last comment on that series was more than a week back, so best
>> thought to just do a folded fix on top of it - and I had formed the impression
>> (from the conversations on list) that akpm prefers fixes over respins : )
>>
>> If a respin is preferred here then I am fine by that.
>>
> Generally we prefer fix-patches, sent in reply to the patch being altered and
> sent by the series author.
>
> Sending a patch with a Fixes: tag is never the correct way to fixup a patch
> unless they're upstream or unchangeably-bound-for-upstream with a commit hash
> that will be the same in Linus's tree.
>
> You can by all means suggest a patch to an author by replying to the broken
> patch, but then it's up to them whether to take it. Also then the courteous way
> is to raise the issue in that reply and say something like 'it seems that the
> below fixes the issue, can you check it?' or something like this.
>
> But the correct course is to the respond to the series in all cases like this.

Alright! Thanks for your kind explanation.

>
> Thanks, Lorenzo