Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 14:14:16 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git sysv pile
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 01-03-23 12:20:56, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > On venerd? 24 febbraio 2023 04:26:57 CET Al Viro wrote:
> > > 	Fabio's "switch to kmap_local_page()" patchset (originally after the
> > > ext2 counterpart, with a lot of cleaning up done to it; as the matter of
> > > fact, ext2 side is in need of similar cleanups - calling conventions there
> > > are bloody awful).
> > 
> > If nobody else is already working on these cleanups in ext2 following your 
> > suggestion, I'd be happy to work on this by the end of this week. I only need 
> > a confirmation because I'd hate to duplicate someone else work.
> > 
> > > Plus the equivalents of minix stuff...
> > 
> > I don't know this other filesystem but I could take a look and see whether it 
> > resembles somehow sysv and ext2 (if so, this work would be pretty simple too, 
> > thanks to your kind suggestions when I worked on sysv and ufs).
> > 
> > I'm adding Jan to the Cc list to hear whether he is aware of anybody else 
> > working on this changes for ext2. I'm waiting for a reply from you (@Al) or 
> > Jan to avoid duplication (as said above).
> 
> I'm not sure what exactly Al doesn't like about how ext2 handles pages and
> mapping but if you have some cleanups in mind, sure go ahead. I don't have
> any plans on working on that code in the near term.

I think I've pushed a demo patchset to vfs.git at some point back in January...
Yep - see #work.ext2 in there; completely untested, though.