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Date:   Thu, 1 Nov 2018 22:05:19 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [git pull] mount API series
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:33:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Al - can I ask you to look at helping David with something like that?
> You tend to be very good at generating those patch-series with
> "obviously no changes" for the individual patches, but the end result
> ends up being totally different from the starting point (I'm thinking
> of all the locking and dentry refcounting series).

I'll try.  Before we go there, I'd like to get the rest of vfs.git off
my hands - AFS series and misc pile.  Will send pull requests shortly,
then - this stuff.  Do you mind if we end up with work.mount rebased?
The usual objections re testing in -next do not apply in this case,
AFAICS...