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From:   Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:25:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0100 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> ... and now it even builds.  Said that, I would really like to hear something
>> from you - I can duplicate the entire overlayfs-next and merge it into
>> my #for-next and ask Steven to use that instead of your tree, but I very
>> much dislike going over your head like that.
>>
>> I realize that you'd been away for a while and probably are digging yourself
>> from under the piles of mail, but it's getting late in the cycle and I want
>> to get #for-next into reasonably sane shape.  Please, look through that
>> thing and respond.
>
> Almost everything has been removed from the overlayfs tree in
> linux-next today.  The only commit there currently is:
>
> 67810693077a ovl: fix wrong use of impure dir cache in ovl_iterate()

Al, thank you very much for taking care of this.   I've already begone
to go through those and will finish up the merge, hopefully today.

Thanks,
Miklos