Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] acl: add vfs posix acl api

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:57:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 9:27 AM Casey Schaufler [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Could we please see the entire patch set on the LSM list?

While I don't think that's necessarily wrong, I would like to point
out that the gitweb interface actually does make it fairly easy to
just see the whole patch-set.

IOW, that

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping.git/log/?h=fs.acl.rework

that Christian pointed to is not a horrible way to see it all. Go to
the top-most commit, and it's easy to follow the parent links.

It's a bit more work to see them in another order, but I find the
easiest way is actually to just follow the parent links to get the
overview of what is going on (reading just the commit messages), and
then after that you "reverse course" and use the browser back button
to just go the other way while looking at the details of the patches.

And I suspect a lot of people are happier *without* large patch-sets
being posted to the mailing lists when most patches aren't necessarily
at all relevant to that mailing list except as context.

The problem is also that it's impossible to please both parties here.

A good portion of people doesn't like being flooded with patches they
don't really care about and the other portion gets worked up when they
only see a single patch.

So honestly I just always make a judgement call based on the series. But
b4 makes it so so easy to just retrieve the whole series. So even if I
only receive a single patch and am curious then I just use b4.

I've even got it integrated into mutt directly:

# Pipe message to b4 to download patches and threads
macro index,pager A "<pipe-message>b4 am --apply-cover-trailers --sloppy-trailers --add-my-sob --guess-base --check-newer-revisions --no-cache --quilt-ready <enter>"
macro index,pager M "<pipe-message>b4 mbox <enter>"