On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 06:15:29PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: >> Refactor the core of generic_swapfile_activate() into bmap_walk() so >> that it can be used by a new daxfile_activate() helper (to be added). > > No way in hell! generic_swapfile_activate needs to day and no new users > of ->bmap over my dead body. It's a guaranteed to fuck up your data left, > right and center. Certainly you're not saying that existing swapfiles are broken, so I wonder what bugs you're talking about? Unless you had plans to go remove bmap() I don't see how this gets in your way at all. That said, I think "please don't add a new bmap() user, use iomap instead" is a fair comment. You know me well enough to know that would be all it takes to redirect my work, I can do without the bluster. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
