Re: [PATCH 06/11] libxfs: create new file trans_buf.c

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On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 04:07:50PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 03:18:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Pull functions out of libxfs/*.c into trans_buf.c, if they roughly match
> > the kernel's xfs_trans_buf.c file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So I have no problems with this, but I'm not sure what the eventual
> goal is? Just sharing code, or is there some functionality that
> requires a more complete transaction subsystem in userspace?
> 
> I'm asking because if the goal is eventual unification with the
> kernel code, then we probably should name the files the same as the
> kernel code so we don't have to rename them again when we do the
> unification. That will make history searching a bit easier - less
> file names to follow across and git blame works a whole lot better...

Even if we don't want to directly share code having the same file
name would still be nice..



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