From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] first step toward the new truncate sequence Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 09:38:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20100531073851.GA4756@lst.de> References: <20100530204932.GA21002@lst.de> <20100531071353.GA9453@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Nick Piggin Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:57461 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753252Ab0EaHi6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2010 03:38:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100531071353.GA9453@laptop> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:53PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > A second series to deal > > with ->setattr will follow and after that we can easily switch > > over one filesystem after another. > > > > I think this is still 2.6.34 material as it will make the fs > > switches a lot easier and avoid introducing the _newtrunc variants > > for one kernel release. > > No objections from me, but what is the policy on changing exported APIs > without changing the name? There is no policy, but we do it all the time. Note that we also change the prototypes for all but cont_write_begin so it's an easy to spot compile breakage.