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netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record

Message ID 162609279295.3129635.5721010331369998019.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk (mailing list archive)
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Series netfs: Add MAINTAINERS record | expand

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David Howells July 12, 2021, 12:26 p.m. UTC 
Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162377165897.729347.292567369593752239.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162377519404.734878.4912821418522385423.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
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 MAINTAINERS |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig July 13, 2021, 5:44 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library.

Btw, any reason why this code is called netfs?  It is a library
that seems to mostly be glue code for fscache as far as I can tell and
has nothing to do with networking at all.
Jeff Layton July 13, 2021, 11:54 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 06:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:26:32PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Add a MAINTAINERS record for the new netfs helper library.
> 
> Btw, any reason why this code is called netfs?  It is a library
> that seems to mostly be glue code for fscache as far as I can tell and
> has nothing to do with networking at all.

It's infrastructure for network filesystems.

The original impetus was hooking up fscache, though the helper code also
works with fscache disabled. We also have some work in progress to plumb
in fscrypt support, and David is also looking at adding
writepage/writepages support too.

readpage/readpages/writepage/writepages operations in network
filesystems are quite "fiddly", and they all do it in subtly different
ways (and not always for good reasons).

The new read helper infrastructure abstracts a lot of that away, and
gives netfs's a simpler set of operations to deal with. We're hoping to
do the same with writepage/writepages helpers soon.
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a61f4f3b78a9..2fd13803cd06 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -13050,6 +13050,15 @@  NETWORKING [WIRELESS]
 L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
 Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
 
+NETWORK FILESYSTEM HELPER LIBRARY
+M:	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+M:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
+L:	linux-cachefs@redhat.com (moderated for non-subscribers)
+S:	Supported
+F:	Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst
+F:	fs/netfs/
+F:	include/linux/netfs.h
+
 NETXEN (1/10) GbE SUPPORT
 M:	Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
 M:	Rahul Verma <rahulv@marvell.com>