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Nice to see even the graybeards on LKML are as susceptible to bikeshedding as anyone else. Note how much heated debate is happening around how Kent is behaving

• alphazard 3y ago
  The real feedback has already happened. Last year Kent sent out the initial patches, and the main feedback from Linus was about the Git history and locking. All the important stuff is sorted out, it's in good shape to go into the kernel. The issue now is there are lots of maintainers who don't like that someone else did something impressive that they couldn't have done, and they are dragging their feet getting the various patches outside `fs/bcachefs` integrated. The design and implementation is basically just Kent, there are others onboarding to help with maintenance. There is a "Wireguard" level of craftsmanship in this project, it's a big deal. A younger Linus, in another time, might have told everyone to cut the bullshit--if you can't comment on the code, shut up, you're probably incompetent--but that's not the way things work anymore.