linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more carefully

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Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:24:57 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@...rite.de>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more
	carefully

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:10:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> "the percpu cleanup patch" is nowhere nearly specific enough to be
> useful.  I don't know what patch this is.

Sorry, I should have been more specific.  It's called:

percpu-counters-clean-up-percpu_counter_sum_and_set-interface.patch 

in in your mmotm tree.

> If stuff turns up in linux-next then I'll just drop the -mm duplicate
> under the assumption that the patch is being taken care of by someone
> else.

Well, in the past you've been asked me not to include non-ext4 patches
in the ext4 tree.  So I could include that patch in an ext4 patchset
and push it to linux-next, since it *does* involve changes to fs/ext4
as well as to include/linux/percpu_counter.h and lib/percpu_counter.c,
if that would be easier.  Or we can keep it out of the set of patches
I push to Linus, but then we have to worry about patch ordering and
dependencies a bit more.

> I will usually attempt to verify that the subsystem tree merged
> the correct patch.  Fairly often they didn't.

I've checked, and modulo some minor changelog comment fixups I had
made to fix grammar and spelling that I had made to my version of the
patch, and the fact that we didn't have your signed-off-by in your
version of the patch, the patch we have is identical.  I'll reconcile
the changelog comments headers on my end, and if you want to keep it
in -mm, I'll send them back to you.  Otherwise I'll include it in ext4
patches and you can drop it from yours if that's OK with you.
Whatever's easier....

							- Ted
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