linux-kernel - Re: [patch 5/6] fs: d_compare change for rcu-walk

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Message-ID: <20101109162555.GC6217@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:25:55 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] fs: d_compare change for rcu-walk

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:02:35AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> cifs and jfs contain the non-trivial changes, where they no longer
> overwrite dentry name in their d_compare(), but rather use the
> d_revalidate() method for ensuring case preservation in the presence
> of negative dentries, taken from fatfs.

Please split these out to separate patches, and make sure you get
a review and testing from the jfs and cifs maintainers.  I don't think
this is .37 material any more.

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