linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext2: do not register write

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Message-ID: <1334143474.13842.0.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:24:34 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Ext4 Mailing List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: do not register write_super within VFS

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 00:36 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 03-04-12 12:49:18, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Jan Kara removed 'sb->s_dirt' VFS flag references, so we do not need to
> > register the ext2 'ext2_write_super()' method in the VFS superblock operations,
> > because 'sb->s_dirt' won't be ever set to 1 and VFS won't ever call
> > '->write_super()' anyway. Thus, remove the method.
> > 
> > Tested using xfstests.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
>   Thanks. Added to my tree.

Jan, I do not see this patch in 'for_next' of your tree.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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