linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix typo in RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT

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Message-ID: <8acaf8d7-17c9-e8ec-c60a-18a011b4c34f@kernel.dk>
Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:25:44 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix typo in RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET constant name

On 10/25/18 8:19 AM, Eugene Syromiatnikov wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 07:51:14PM +0200, Eugene Syromiatnikov wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> This is a small fix of a typo (or, more specifically, some remnant of
>> the old patch version spelling) in RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET constant,
>> which is named as RWF_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET currently.  Since the name
>> with "H" is used in man page and everywhere else, it's probably worth
>> to make the name used in the fcntl.h UAPI header in line with it.
>> Second follow-up patch updates (the sole) usage site of this constant
>> in kernel to use the new spelling.
>>
>> The old name is retained as it is part of UAPI now.
> 
> Hello, are there issues with the patches?

I only got the 0/2 patch, none of the two others..

-- 
Jens Axboe