On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:28:08PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> This series enables and limits user extended attributes on tmpfs,
> and independently provides a trivial direct IO stub for tmpfs.
>
> It is here based on the vfs.tmpfs branch in vfs.git in next-20230808
> but with a cherry-pick of v6.5-rc4's commit
> 253e5df8b8f0 ("tmpfs: fix Documentation of noswap and huge mount options")
> first: since the vfs.tmpfs branch is based on v6.5-rc1, but 3/5 in this
> series updates tmpfs.rst in a way which depends on that commit.
>
> IIUC the right thing to do would be to cherry-pick 253e5df8b8f0 into
> vfs.tmpfs before applying this series. I'm sorry that the series as
> posted does not apply cleanly to any known tree! but I think posting
> it against v6.5-rc5 or next-20230808 would be even less helpful.
No worries, I'll sort that out.
>
> There is one "conflict" between this series and the final next-20230808:
> Jeff Layton's vfs.ctime mods update a line of shmem_xattr_handler_set(),
> where neighbouring lines are modified by 1/5 and 3/5 here: easily
> resolved in the merge commit, I hope.
Yeah, git rerere is our friend here as well so reassembling the tree
isn't really that much pain.
