linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 03/14] dcache: Add a new helper function d

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Message-ID: <51DEB7BE.3030609@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:48:46 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
To:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
CC:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/14] dcache: Add a new helper function d_count()
 to return refcount

On 07/08/2013 09:09 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch adds a new helper function d_count() in dcache.h for
> returning the current reference count of the dentry object. It
> should be used by all the files outside of the core dcache.c and
> namei.c files.

I want to know people's thought of spinning out patches 3-11 of this 
patch series as the making the d_count() helper the standard way of 
accessing the reference count in dentry outside of dcache.c and namei.c 
should be non-controversial. By merging it first, this will make 
revising this patch series easier and involving less people.

Regards,
Longman
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