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

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Date:   Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:55:08 -0700
From:   Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>,
        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 Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 5:55 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
>
> 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.

Good point. I guess I will wait until it shows up in for-5.5/block?

Song