linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] dtype handling cleanup for v4.21-rc1

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Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:36:06 +1200
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] dtype handling cleanup for v4.21-rc1

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 9:24 PM Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> What has happened to this pull request? It may be too late for this to be
> merged now but I'd like to understand why it was not merged or rejected...

Sorry, initially I left if for later consideration after rc1, and then
I just forgot about it.

I didn't see much point to the cleanup when it actually adds lots of
lines and no actual advantage. The whole dentry type translation
really is fs-specific and it might just happen to be shared. But why
share it if it only adds complexity and unnecessary abstraction?

               Linus