linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

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Message-ID: <20080915053048.GE28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:30:48 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Osterlund <petero2@...ia.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:26:43AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster.  The right things to
> > > > pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device.  Al had
> > > > all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree:
> > > > 
> > > > 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > Completely agreed. Al, I remember talking to you about this at the
> > > storage summit back in february. What are your current plans wrt moving
> > > this forward?
> > 
> > Rebased, with nfs parts of fmode_t patch taken out (irrelevant for
> > bdev anyway and really better off in intent-killing queue).  Other
> > than that, it's a straight port...  Same place, same branch.
> 
> So what's your plan with this - 2.6.28?

Yes.  The only nastiness is around drivers/ide - there it gets a bunch of
annoying conflicts from the ide-{disk,floppy}_ioctl.c splitoff.  Other than
that, it's trivially ported on top of current linux-next.  Merge order is
going to be interesting - depending on whether block merge happens before
or after ide one.

I'm going to put linux-next-based series on kernel.org tonight, before
going to Portland...
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