Arnd and I had a discussion about how to proceed here. We don't think anybody really is wanting a big patch touching 50 fs here. We are evaluating a couple of approaches that don't do this. I will post an update next week On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2016 10:06:32 Dave Chinner wrote: >> >> IOWs, you're now finally suggesting doing the *simple conversion* >> I've been suggesting needs to be made *since the start* of this >> long, frustrating thread, except you *still want to abstract the >> timestamp unnecessarily*. >> >> For the last time: use timespec64 directly, do not abstract it >> in any way. > > No, in an earlier mail you said > > "Nobody is suggesting one huge patch here. This can all be done with > small steps." > > Changing 45 files in 20 file systems along with the VFS core in > one patch is what I consider a huge patch, it's the opposite > of small steps. > > 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
