On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 08:42:46AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 09:25:26AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:36:46 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > > I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to > > > enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive > > > lock on the directory. > > > There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS, > > > smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit. Hence the long Cc line. > > > > > > NeilBrown > > > > > > [...] > > > > I've taken your first cleanup. Thanks for splitting those out of the > > other series. > > > > --- > > > > Applied to the vfs-6.15.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. > > Patches in the vfs-6.15.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon. > > Might be better to put it into a separate branch, so that further > work in that direction wouldn't be mixed with other stuff... Yep, good call: vfs-6.15.async.dir
