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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:29:22 -0500
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-integrity <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...marydata.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool
 instead of s64

On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 12:53 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ack. Should I expect this in a future pull request, or take it directly?
> 
> There's no hurry about this, since none of the existing users of that
> function actually do anything but test the return value against zero,
> and nobody saves it into anything but a "bool" (which has magical
> casting properties and does not lose upper bits).
> 
>               Linus

Do you mind just taking it directly? I don't have anything else queued
up for this cycle.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>

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