On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:45:46PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > So can I assume you will be taking both patches through your tree? > and add said comment to your future self? I'm OK with that (if Jeff is). > Since patches are independent of overlayfs work, it does not matter if they > get merged before or after overlayfs work, just please let us know what you > intend to do, because right now I posted patch 1/2 at the end of the > overlayfs series for Miklos to take. I'd be fine with that or with Miklos taking either or both (feel free to add an Acked-by: tag for me if you take that route). But I'll assume I'm taking them unless I hear otherwise. > Which reminds me... I never got any feedback from tmpfs/vfs folks about the > tmpfs patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10055177/ > but IIRC, both you and Jeff where in favor of the change. > Do you feel confident enough about this patch to carry it though your tree? No, I'd recommend resending. Looks like it should go to Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> and linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx ? --b. > Or should I nudge someone else about it? > The test for decoding a file handle of an unlinked file has already been > merged to xfstest generic/467 and the test is failing with tmpfs without this > change. > > Thanks! > Amir.