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Message-ID: <20100525224259.GM2150@dastard> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:42:59 +1000 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages() On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:06:26AM -0400, tytso@....edu wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 08:54:09PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> > > > > Make a copy of write_cache_pages() for the benefit of > > ext4_da_writepages(). This allows us to simplify the code some, and > > will allow us to further customize the code in future patches. > > I'm going to be pushing this to Linus shortly, so it's likely you'll > be able to drop this from your patch series. Great! > I just wanted to give > you a heads up about what I was planning on doing, which hopefully > simplified your life a little. And that's appreciated. I included it to make sure everyone could see how this all fitted together and others could test it if they so desired. i.e. make sure I wasn't breaking ext4 by reverting the changes to write_cache_pages. I'll leave it in the series until the ext4 change is upstream, then I'll drop it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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