linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/28] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management [try #2]

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:52:14 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org,
	Trond.Myklebust@...app.com, sds@...ho.nsa.gov,
	casey@...aufler-ca.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management [try #2]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 02:45, David Howells wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:
> > It is to make everybody happy. Especially in code that everyone works
> > on like mm/ and fs/, you can't just have everybody following their own
> > slightly different conventions.
>
> Conventions are what people agree they are.

Yes, David :)


> Anyway, I've attached a revised page flags patch if you can take a quick
> look over that.

Still has funny hunks in pagemap.h and filemap.c. At a quick glance
I guess it is better, but can you please point me to the messages
where people have objected to my suggested way of doing it?

Thanks,
Nick
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