linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

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Date:	Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:01:58 +0400
From:	Mikhail Efremov <sem@...linux.ru>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Mikhail Efremov <sem@...linux.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames
 unconditionally.

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:56:57 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (And Mikhail - I'm not ragging on you, even if I'm ragging on the
> patch. I understand why you did it the way you did, and it makes sense
> exactly in the "let's reinstate old hackery" model. I just think we
> can and should do better than that, now that the "exchange" vs "move
> over" semantics are so explicit).

Well, I can't argue with the fact that this patch is ugly, especially
after all this discussion.
I just hope that the right solution will be implemented soon and this
ugly hack will be dropped.

> Al (or Mikhail) - willing to do that extra cleanup? Please?

I'll definetly take a look at this, but I doubt that I will be able to
implement the right solution soon. Actually this is the first time when
I look at the kernel code so deeply.
I hope that someone with much more knowledge of the kernel code than my
own (Al or Miklos may be) will do that.

-- 
WBR, Mikhail Efremov
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