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Message-ID: <20210315190618.GA150808@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:06:18 +0000
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] ext4: add ability to return parsed options from
 parse_options

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:37:12AM -0700, Harshad Shirwadkar wrote:
> Before this patch, the function parse_options() was returning
> journal_devnum and journal_ioprio variables to the caller. This patch
> generalizes that interface to allow parse_options to return any parsed
> options to return back to the caller. In this patch series, it gets
> used to capture the value of "mb_optimize_scan=%u" mount option.

Instead of adding more code to the legacy option parsing code can
someone convert ext4 to the new mount API first?

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