On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:06:13PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > This makes sense to me as well. > > Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > So how do we want to send this patch to Linus? It's a writeback > change, so through some mm tree? Or it lives in fs/fs-writeback.c > (which I always thought was weird; why is it not in mm/?), so maybe > through the VFS tree, even though I don't think Al would really care > about this patch. As in "don't really like", TBH. I'll take it (with saner commit message and comment in the source), but I really wonder if we are just asking for more trouble down the road. Specifically, I *really* want to see locking rules for that sucker spelled out. What can be held by caller? -- 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