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

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Message-ID: <20101110014818.GA4187@amd>
Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:48:18 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, 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 Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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

Yeah, good suggestion.

> a review and testing from the jfs and cifs maintainers.  I don't think
> this is .37 material any more.

We'll see. It's pretty trivial to test really, and method reused
from fatfs.

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