On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 9:24 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > What has happened to this pull request? It may be too late for this to be > merged now but I'd like to understand why it was not merged or rejected... Sorry, initially I left if for later consideration after rc1, and then I just forgot about it. I didn't see much point to the cleanup when it actually adds lots of lines and no actual advantage. The whole dentry type translation really is fs-specific and it might just happen to be shared. But why share it if it only adds complexity and unnecessary abstraction? Linus