linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: add file

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Message-ID: <CA+icZUVO7SmFAY4dtp+YRBDXzVJ6ts41S0YdrY1oMhATm=WFKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:19:05 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: add file_dentry()

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>>>> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
>>>>
>>>> This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make
>>>> f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you put that series in your vfs.git tree?
>>> Easier for getting and testing.
>>
>> Ok, pushed to:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git file_dentry
>>
>
> Is that correct the ext4-related patches 3/4 and 4/4 are Linux-v4.5 material?
> Not applicable fpr v4.4.y-stable?
>

Sorry, for disturbing again - parallelly building some other software
which needs my attention.

Why didn't you split 1/4 into a vfs (generic) part and overlayfs (related) part?
Thinking of bisecting or backporting ovl fixes.

Just my €0,02.

- Sedat -