linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [MTD] Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure

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Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:33:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure



On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Umm. Why not just remove the two-liner? It was incorrect. The comment says 
> "this should be safe", and if it wasn't, then the commit that caused this 
> all was total crap to begin with.

Grr. Ok, so we do need it. Because Jens made it not work without it, and 
didn't fix up the filesystems, just added a random comment saying "we 
shouldn't need to".

Double-grr. I hate misleading comments. It makes the patch and the code 
look like people knew what they were doing.

Jens - please help fix this up.

		Linus
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