linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/14] VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not using generic_show

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:54:46 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not
 using generic_show_options

On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:33:29 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > As this is patch 1/14, is there any dependency on this working? That
> > is, it is safe to simply remove this caller from those locations? Or
> > are there dependencies on having any of the 2-14 patches added to make
> > it not cause issues?  
> 
> Patch 14 removes the then-unused helpers, but patches 1-13 otherwise are
> independent of each other and have no dependencies on earlier patches.
> 

So basically it's an useless function call wrt tracefs. In that case...

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve