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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:05:42 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] cifs: Fix cifs_writepages_region()
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:     Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
        Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@cjr.nz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
        Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:58 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I'll apply that minimal fix for now - I think the right thing to do is
> your bigger patch, but that needs more thinking (or at least splitting
> up).

Minimal fix applied - that way I can drop this for now, and we can
discuss the whole "maybe we can just use write_cache_pages()" instead.

Because that _would_ be lovely, even if it's possible that the generic
helper might need some extra love to work better for cifs/afs.

             Linus