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Message-ID: <87lhftjqbl.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:25:50 +0200 From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace On Tue, Jun 09 2015, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> Doing single-character substitution on an entire string is open-coded >> in a few places, sometimes in a rather suboptimal way. This introduces >> a trivial helper, strreplace, for this task along with a few example >> conversions. >> >> Andrew, can I get you to take 1/8 through the mm tree? I'm not sure >> what the easiest path is for the remaining patches. > > This is not super urgent, right? Right, not urgent at all. > So we could let 1/8 go into mainline, and then the rest of the patches > could go in the next release. That would be the simplest, although it > would drag out how long it would take for strreplace to be used > everywhere. Sure, though it would be a little weird to have a helper with no users until 4.3 comes out. Rasmus -- 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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