linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix typo in RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 18:55:43 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>,
        Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>
Cc:     open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix typo in RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET constant name

On 10/1/19 5:12 PM, Song Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:58 AM Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com> 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.
>> The two follow-up patches update usage sites of this constant in kernel
>> to use the new spelling.
>>
>> The old name is retained as it is part of UAPI now.
>>
>> Changes since v2[1]:
>>   * Updated RWF_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET constant usage
>>     in drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c:ppl_init_log().
>>
>> Changes since v1[2]:
>>   * Changed format of the commit ID in the commit message of the first patch.
>>   * Removed bogus Signed-off-by that snuck into the resend of the series.
> 
> Applied to md-next.

I think the core fs change should core in through a core tree, then
the md bits can go in at will after that.

-- 
Jens Axboe