linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] Convert vfs.txt to vfs.rst

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Message-ID: <20190403193523.GX2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 3 Apr 2019 20:35:23 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] Convert vfs.txt to vfs.rst

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:55:01AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:

> It seems very likely that this was just a subtlety that I missed.
> I doesn't help that "ino" isn't actually and inode and isn't freed like
> an inode, but that is no excuse.
> 
> When we add the rcu_head linkage to 'struct autofs_info', we might as
> well remove the 'struct inode' from there - it doesn't seem to have been
> used for years.

Umm...  I can do that, but then we get greater potential for conflicts
and the whole thing might be better off in autofs tree.  Ian, up to you -
I can throw both into a never-rebased branch, so you could merge it
into your tree; the first one is -stable fodder, though...