linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: Do not dispatch FITRIM through separate super

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Message-ID: <20101118130630.GJ6178@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:06:30 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, sandeen@...hat.com,
	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: Do not dispatch FITRIM through separate
	super_operation

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:36:48AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> There was concern that FITRIM ioctl is not common enough to be included
> in core vfs ioctl, as Christoph Hellwig pointed out there's no real point
> in dispatching this out to a separate vector instead of just through
> ->ioctl.

Um, are you and Josef working independently of each other?  You don't
seem to be cc'ing each other on your patches, and you're basically doing
the same thing.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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