On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:09:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 1: What happened with Andi's "dio: optimize cache misses in the > submission path"? (Against which I have checkpatch fixes and > #include linux/prefetch.h, btw) It has mostly been merged, including all whitespace fixes and some folding. What is missing is the last two patchees because I don't want to put the request_queue caching in until the remaining lifetime issues for the request queue are sorted out, and the last patch (which would need prefetch.h) depends on it. > > 2: I'm still sitting on Andy Whitcroft's "readlinkat: ensure we > return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups" and its > fixup. I'd marked this as needed-in-3.1. Help. > > From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups > > Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the > error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched > from ENOENT to EINVAL: The fix is defintively required, I'll look over it in a bit more detail and will push it with the next round. > > 3: I'm also sitting on Hans Verkuil's "poll: add > poll_requested_events() function". This is being merged via the v4l > tree, based on looks-ok-to-akpm. AFAIK nobody else has looked at > it. This should be in linux-next via the v4l tree by now, but it > isn't, so something might have gone wrong. That was my assumption, too. > > 4: I'm still sitting on Steve Rago's "fcntl(F_SETFL): allow setting > of O_SYNC". I have a comment here that you said it "needs an > audit". AFAIK nothing has happened. Should I toss it? This also needs all the other bits I mentioned during review. > 5: Tao Ma's "fs/direct-io.c: calculate fs_count correctly in > get_more_blocks()" was missed and needs rework as a result of this > merge. Here's what I now have. It compiles. Tao, can you please resend it against current Linus' tree after making sure the upated version is still fine? -- 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
