From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 01/17] VFS: introduce helpers for the s_dirty flag Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:49:15 +0300 Message-ID: <1276098555.5677.131.camel@localhost> References: <1274795352-3551-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> <1274795352-3551-2-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> <20100528132318.0783675a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100528211432.GM31073@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20100528141755.42958d81.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100609154448.GC6162@thunk.org> Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andrew Morton , Al Viro , LKML , Jens Axboe , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel , "Tigran A. Aivazian" , Chris Mason , Boaz Harrosh , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, OGAWA Hirofumi , David Woodhouse , reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Evgeniy Dushistov To: tytso@mit.edu Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100609154448.GC6162@thunk.org> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:44 -0400, tytso@mit.edu wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >=20 > > > The real issue is that it's almost certainly an overdesign. Let'= s > > > get rid of the bogus uses first and figure out what's happening i= n > > > what remains, OK? > >=20 > > That would be good. >=20 > Can we figure out what the new names will be for these accessor > functions, and then pursuade Linus to be willing to add patch #1 in > this series to add these accessor functions (without any users for > these functions, that would wait until the next merge window) to > 2.6.35-rc3 or -rc4, please? >=20 > It will make life much easier for fs maintainers to merge the patches= , > especially if they've done some cleanup to reduce the bogus places > where s_dirt was getting set in the first place. That way I can appl= y > my patch to reduce the use of s_dirt[1], then apply a patch I carry i= n > my own tree to convert to the new accessor functions without worrying > about patch conflicts. Yes, that would be nice, Al? --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=90=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC =D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E= =D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-deve= l" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html