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Date:   Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:33:10 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hook
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:33:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:45:57PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> > Negative dentries support on case-insensitive ext4/f2fs will require
> > access to the name under lookup to ensure it matches the dentry.  This
> > adds an optional new flavor of cached dentry revalidation hook to expose
> > this extra parameter.
> > 
> > I'm fine with extending d_revalidate instead of adding a new hook, if
> > it is considered cleaner and the approach is accepted.  I wrote a new
> > hook to simplify reviewing.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> 
> Al, could you take a look and see if you have any objections?

Ping, Al, any objsections if I take Gabriel's patch series via the
ext4 tree?

					- Ted