Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:44:49 -0400 | From | tytso@mit ... | Subject | Re: [PATCHv4 01/17] VFS: introduce helpers for the s_dirty flag |
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The real issue is that it's almost certainly an overdesign. Let's > > get rid of the bogus uses first and figure out what's happening in > > what remains, OK? > > That would be good.
Can we figure out what the new names will be for these accessor functions, and then pursuade Linus to be willing to add patch #1 in this series to add these accessor functions (without any users for these functions, that would wait until the next merge window) to 2.6.35-rc3 or -rc4, please?
It will make life much easier for fs maintainers to merge the patches, especially if they've done some cleanup to reduce the bogus places where s_dirt was getting set in the first place. That way I can apply my patch to reduce the use of s_dirt[1], then apply a patch I carry in my own tree to convert to the new accessor functions without worrying about patch conflicts.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/19499
Thanks,
- Ted
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