linux-kernel - Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:29:55 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

Hi Al,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0100 Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> ... and now it even builds.  Said that, I would really like to hear something
> from you - I can duplicate the entire overlayfs-next and merge it into
> my #for-next and ask Steven to use that instead of your tree, but I very
> much dislike going over your head like that.
> 
> I realize that you'd been away for a while and probably are digging yourself
> from under the piles of mail, but it's getting late in the cycle and I want
> to get #for-next into reasonably sane shape.  Please, look through that
> thing and respond.

Almost everything has been removed from the overlayfs tree in
linux-next today.  The only commit there currently is:

67810693077a ovl: fix wrong use of impure dir cache in ovl_iterate()
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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