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

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Message-Id: <20100609093157.cd040633.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:31:57 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	tytso@....edu
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 Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:44:49 -0400 tytso@....edu wrote:

> 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,

sb_mark_dirty(), sb_mark_clean(), sb_is_dirty().

> 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?

I expect he'd be OK with that.

> 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.

For that reason.

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