On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:12:07 Sage Weil wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I suspect the easiest thing is to leave Ceph out of this stage of your > > > series, I'll switch lock_kernel() to lock_flocks() once that exists > > > upstream. Unless there is a better way? > > > > Maybe someone could write a trivial implementation of lock_flocks() (i.e. > > one that does not make any changes to behaviour) and ask Linus to take it > > now in preparation for the next merge window (he has done that before). > > That way, more of this could be put into individual other trees and avoid > > more conflicts ... > > This sounds like the easiest solution to me. Something as simple as > > #define lock_flocks lock_kernel > #define unlock_flocks unlock_kernel > > in fs.h? Sounds fine to me. I don't think it's necessary but if you prefer to do it, you can have my Ack. Arnd -- 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