From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace
Organization: D03
References: <1433806017-10823-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
	<20150609005554.GP19168@thunk.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:25:50 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20150609005554.GP19168@thunk.org> (Theodore Ts'o's message of
	"Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:55:54 -0400")
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On Tue, Jun 09 2015, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> Doing single-character substitution on an entire string is open-coded
>> in a few places, sometimes in a rather suboptimal way. This introduces
>> a trivial helper, strreplace, for this task along with a few example
>> conversions.
>> 
>> Andrew, can I get you to take 1/8 through the mm tree? I'm not sure
>> what the easiest path is for the remaining patches.
>
> This is not super urgent, right?

Right, not urgent at all.

> So we could let 1/8 go into mainline, and then the rest of the patches
> could go in the next release. That would be the simplest, although it
> would drag out how long it would take for strreplace to be used
> everywhere.

Sure, though it would be a little weird to have a helper with no users
until 4.3 comes out.

Rasmus
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