On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 08:36:35AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:07:16 +0300
Leon Romanovsky [off-list ref] wrote:

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Do *you* want to review that megapatch?  The number of issues that have
come up make it clear that these patches do, indeed, need review...

Can you point me to the issues?
What can go wrong with such a simple replacement?

Some bits of the conversation:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200626110219.7ae21265@lwn.net/ (local)
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200626110706.7b5d4a38@lwn.net/ (local)
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200705142506.1f26a7e0@lwn.net/ (local)
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200713114321.783f0ae6@lwn.net/ (local)
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202007081531.085533FC5@keescook/ (local)

etc.

After reading your links and especially this one.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200713114321.783f0ae6@lwn.net/ (local)
I don't understand why are we still seeing these patches?

I gave to the author comments too, which were ignored.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11644683/#23466547

Thanks

jon