linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] VFS: remove warning about invalid s

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Message-ID: <20110317102351.1550fa53@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:23:51 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: remove warning about invalid s_maxbytes values

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:16:56 -0400
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:12:43AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > This warning should have been removed in 2.6.34. We missed that by a
> > few releases, so we should be OK to remove this now.
> 
> Why can't we just kee it?
> 

I suppose we could. It doesn't really harm anything. The idea at the
time was to do this for a few releases and then remove the warning.

If we do that though we should probably fix the comment. Should I just
spin up a patch to do that instead?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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