linux-kernel - Re: VFS tree for 3.17?

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:47:00 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Subject: Re: VFS tree for 3.17?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 04:41:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Hi Al,
>>
>> Do you plan to put a VFS tree together for 3.17?  To me the various
>> renameat2 bits from Miklos are something I'd really prefer to not miss,
>> but there might be other bits waiting for attention as well.
>
> Another weeks has passed and I'd really like to make sure we don't
> let the VFS leap.
>
> I'll try to put together a tree over the next days so we can at least
> get a minium amount of linux-next exposure.  Candidates are:
>
>  - the direct-io.c warning fix from Boaz (really should 3.16 actually)
>  - the unmount on symlink reference count fix

This fix is also stable material.
The issue as introduced in 3.12 by 8033426e6b
(vfs: allow umount to handle mountpoints without revalidating them)

>  - the rename/rename2 patches from Mikilos.  These are a bit older
>    and could use a respin.
>
> Anything else I've missed?
>
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Thanks,
//richard
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