linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] fs: new truncate sequence

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:48:41 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] fs: new truncate sequence

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:29:11AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 19:47 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > All good points. I don't know what name to use though -- your idea
> > of renaming ->truncate then reusing it is nice but people will cry
> > about breaking external modules. I'll call it ->setsize and defer
> > having to think about it for now.
> 
> Changing the function signature should get them a compiler warning,
> aside from that I don't think we should really consider their feelings
> anyway ;-)

Well I don't much, but some people do. Anyway I think ->setsize is
actually quite a good name on 2nd thoughts ;)

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