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ext3: Clean up outdated and incorrect comment for ext3_write_super()
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ext3-clean-up-outdated-and-incorrect-comment-for-ext3_write_super.patch
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Subject: ext3: Clean up outdated and incorrect comment for ext3_write_super()
From: Theodore Tso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext3/super.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-clean-up-outdated-and-incorrect-comment-for-ext3_write_super fs/ext3/super.c
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c~ext3-clean-up-outdated-and-incorrect-comment-for-ext3_write_super
+++ a/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2375,12 +2375,9 @@ int ext3_force_commit(struct super_block
/*
* Ext3 always journals updates to the superblock itself, so we don't
* have to propagate any other updates to the superblock on disk at this
- * point. Just start an async writeback to get the buffers on their way
- * to the disk.
- *
- * This implicitly triggers the writebehind on sync().
+ * point. (We can probably nuke this function altogether, and remove
+ * any mention to sb->s_dirt in all of fs/ext3; eventual cleanup...)
*/