linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] block_page

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:22:53 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] block_page_mkwrite() Implementation V2

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:11:31PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I've got the patches in -mm now. I hope they will get merged when the
> the next window opens.
> 
> I didn't submit the ->page_mkwrite conversion yet, because I didn't
> have any callers to look at. It is is slightly less trivial than for
> nopage and nopfn, so having David's block_page_mkwrite is helpful.

Yes.  I was just wondering whether it makes more sense to do this
functionality directly ontop of ->fault instead of converting i over
real soon.

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