Re: sort out the fallocate mode mess

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:30:26AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently been looking at the XFS fallocate implementation and got
> upset about the messing parsing of the mode argument, which mixes modes
> and an optional flag in a really confusing way.
> 
> This series tries to clean this up by better defining what is the
> operation mode and what is an optional flag, so that both the core
> code and file systems can use switch statements to switch on the mode.

For patches 4-6,
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

(I'm not going to touch the NO_HIDE_STALE pony, I'll let you and tytso
mix it up over^W^W^W^Wdiscuss that...)

--D




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