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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:49:33 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	<dedekind1@...il.com>
CC:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux FS Maling List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Maling List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...ian.com>, <osd-dev@...n-osd.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: stop using s_dirt

On 06/21/2012 03:29 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 14:48 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> Exofs has the '->write_super()' handler and makes some use of the '->s_dirt'
>> superblock flag, but it really needs neither of them because it never sets
>> 's_dirt' to one which means the VFS never calls its '->write_super()' handler.
>> Thus, remove both.
>>
>> Note, I am trying to remove both 's_dirt' and 'write_super()' from VFS
>> altogether once all users are gone.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Al or Boaz, would you please consider picking this patch?
> 


I will

Sorry for the delay was sick and am only now coming back on.

It should all be included for the next merge window.

Thanks for doing this.
Boaz
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