linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 01/17] VFS: introduce helpers for the s

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Message-ID: <20100609154448.GC6162@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:44:49 -0400
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Tigran A. Aivazian" <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 01/17] VFS: introduce helpers for the s_dirty flag

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > The real issue is that it's almost certainly an overdesign.  Let's
> > get rid of the bogus uses first and figure out what's happening in
> > what remains, OK?
> 
> That would be good.

Can we figure out what the new names will be for these accessor
functions, and then pursuade Linus to be willing to add patch #1 in
this series to add these accessor functions (without any users for
these functions, that would wait until the next merge window) to
2.6.35-rc3 or -rc4, please?

It will make life much easier for fs maintainers to merge the patches,
especially if they've done some cleanup to reduce the bogus places
where s_dirt was getting set in the first place.  That way I can apply
my patch to reduce the use of s_dirt[1], then apply a patch I carry in
my own tree to convert to the new accessor functions without worrying
about patch conflicts.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/19499

Thanks,

						- Ted
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