On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The real issue is that it's almost certainly an overdesign. Let's > > get rid of the bogus uses first and figure out what's happening in > > what remains, OK? > > That would be good. Can we figure out what the new names will be for these accessor functions, and then pursuade Linus to be willing to add patch #1 in this series to add these accessor functions (without any users for these functions, that would wait until the next merge window) to 2.6.35-rc3 or -rc4, please? It will make life much easier for fs maintainers to merge the patches, especially if they've done some cleanup to reduce the bogus places where s_dirt was getting set in the first place. That way I can apply my patch to reduce the use of s_dirt[1], then apply a patch I carry in my own tree to convert to the new accessor functions without worrying about patch conflicts. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/19499 Thanks, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html