linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/14] VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not using generic_show

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:30:23 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not
 using generic_show_options

On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:24:09 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> btrfs, debugfs, reiserfs and tracefs call save_mount_options() and reiserfs
> calls replace_mount_options(), but they then implement their own
> ->show_options() methods and don't touch s_options, rendering the saved  
> options unnecessary.  I'm trying to eliminate s_options to make it easier
> to implement a context-based mount where the mount options can be passed
> individually over a file descriptor.
> 
> Remove the calls to save/replace_mount_options() call in these cases.
> 

As this is patch 1/14, is there any dependency on this working? That
is, it is safe to simply remove this caller from those locations? Or
are there dependencies on having any of the 2-14 patches added to make
it not cause issues?

-- Steve