linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xfs tree with the ext3 tree

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Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:56:52 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	David Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Felix Blyakher <felixb@....com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xfs tree with the ext3 tree

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:55:00AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 218604a0bf712976171798b1dd5c44d26d6d0ea4 ("xfs: Convert sync_page_range()
> to simple filemap_write_and_wait_range()") from the ext3 tree and commit
> 13e6d5cdde0e785aa943810f08b801cadd0935df ("xfs: merge fsync and O_SYNC
> handling") from the xfs tree.
> 
> They both do the same thing (to this bit of code) ... I used the version
> from the xfs tree.

Yes, the xfs tree one is the better one, the one in Jan's tree only
does about half of it.

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