linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs pile 3

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Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:52:49 +0200
From:	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs pile 3

Il 13/10/2012 09:51, Al Viro ha scritto:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:20:45AM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
>> Il 13/10/2012 02:20, Al Viro ha scritto:
>>> 	Stuff from Jeff Layton, mostly.  Sanitizing interplay between
>>> audit and namei, removing a lot of insanity from audit_inode() mess
>>> and getting things ready for his ESTALE patchset.  Please, pull from
>>> the usual place -
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus
>>>
>>
>> Al,
>>
>> do you see any problem to apply the patch series "drop vmtruncate"?
>
> It's somewhat pointless on its own...  If you were doing something with
> the callers afterwards - sure, it would be make sense, but as it is...
>

The goal of the patch was to remove a deprecated function trying to 
improve the code, removing the inode operation and doing a general 
cleanup. It's pointless for me to have "dead"/"old" code, however thanks 
for you comment.

Marco
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