Re: [PATCHv4 01/17] VFS: introduce helpers for the s_dirty flag

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:44:49 -0400 tytso@mit.edu wrote:

> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > The real issue is that it's almost certainly an overdesign.  Let's
> > > get rid of the bogus uses first and figure out what's happening in
> > > what remains, OK?
> > 
> > That would be good.
> 
> Can we figure out what the new names will be for these accessor
> functions,

sb_mark_dirty(), sb_mark_clean(), sb_is_dirty().

> and then pursuade Linus to be willing to add patch #1 in
> this series to add these accessor functions (without any users for
> these functions, that would wait until the next merge window) to
> 2.6.35-rc3 or -rc4, please?

I expect he'd be OK with that.

> It will make life much easier for fs maintainers to merge the patches,
> especially if they've done some cleanup to reduce the bogus places
> where s_dirt was getting set in the first place.

For that reason.