Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] FDP and per-io hints

On 03.10.2024 14:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 11:34:47AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Isn't FDP about communicating much more than only this information to
>> the block device, e.g. information about reclaim units? Although I'm
>> personally not interested in FDP, my colleagues were involved in the
>> standardization of FDP.
>
>Yes, it is.  And when I explained how to properly export this kind of
>information can be implemented on top of the version Kanchan sent everyone
>suddenly stopped diskussion technical points and went either silent or
>all political.
>
>So I think some peoples bonuses depend on not understanding the problem
>I fear :(
>

Please, don't.

Childish comments like this delegitimize the work that a lot of people
are doing in Linux.

We all operate under the assumption that folks here know how to wear two
hants, and that there is no such thing as so specific incentives
neither to push _nor_ block upstream contributions without a use-case
and technical background.

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