linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: remove stray markers

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Message-ID: <20090506111243.GI25203@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2009 13:12:43 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/jbd2: remove stray markers


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:03:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i think these markers are still in active use,
> 
> It's trivially proveable by grep that there is real no user.
> (modulo ad-hoc out of tree modules, which we've never cared about
> retaining stuff)

Well, i'll defer to Ted about whether those out of tree uses are 
relevant to ext4. It's not a problem to do this all in a polite way, 
without destroying functionality.

	Ingo
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