Re: [PATCH 0/6] first step toward the new truncate sequence

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On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:53PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >  A second series to deal
> > with ->setattr will follow and after that we can easily switch
> > over one filesystem after another.
> > 
> > I think this is still 2.6.34 material as it will make the fs
> > switches a lot easier and avoid introducing the _newtrunc variants
> > for one kernel release.
> 
> No objections from me, but what is the policy on changing exported APIs
> without changing the name?

There is no policy, but we do it all the time.  Note that we also change
the prototypes for all but cont_write_begin so it's an easy to spot
compile breakage.
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