Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:43:48 -0600
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix the ustat() regression


On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:02:19 -0600 (CST) Kumar Gala  
> <galak@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> Since 2.6.18, the superblock sb->s_root has been a dummy dentry  
>> with a
>> dummy inode. This breaks ustat(), which actually uses sb->s_root in a
>> vfstat() call.
>>
>> Fix this by making the s_root a dummy alias to the directory inode  
>> that was
>> used when creating the superblock.
>
> I already have this in my
> things-which-need-to-go-into-2.6.24-via-maintainers queue.

Ok, didn't seen one of your normal emails about it going into -mm.   
Anyways, want to make sure this finds its way in to 2.6.24

> That queue is huge:

when is one of your queue's not? :)

- k

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> mips-undo-locking-on-error-path-returns.patch
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> nfs-fix-the-ustat-regression.patch
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> hibernate-fix-lockdep-report-2.patch
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> feature-removal-schedule-remove-sa_-flags-entry.patch
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> acpi-ac-update-ac-state-on-resume.patch
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> x86-disable-preemption-in-delay_tsc.patch
> tty-fix-network-driver-interactions-with-tcget-set-checkpatch- 
> fixes.patch
> tty-fix-tty-network-driver-interactions-with-tcget-tcset-calls-x86- 
> fix.patch
> x86_64-fix-cpu-hotplug-regression.patch
> oprofile-fix-oops-on-x86-32-bit.patch
> x86-32-bit-ptrace-emulation-mishandles-6th-arg.patch
> net-inet_hashtablesh-needs-vmalloch.patch
>
>
> Maintainers miss a lot of stuff :(
>
>

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