Re: shiftfs status and future development

[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:35:49AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 10:46 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> [...]
> > Subject: [PATCH] shiftfs: Forward port to 4.17-rc6
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/shiftfs.c | 17 +++++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/shiftfs.c b/fs/shiftfs.c
> > index ea8ac57b3ce1..fa0797bd7880 100644
> > --- a/fs/shiftfs.c
> > +++ b/fs/shiftfs.c
> > @@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ static void shiftfs_d_release(struct dentry
> > *dentry)
> >  
> >  static struct dentry *shiftfs_d_real(struct dentry *dentry,
> >  				     const struct inode *inode,
> > -				     unsigned int flags)
> > +				     unsigned int open_flag
> 
> Well, that's an oopsie: I already have this change in my code base.  I
> think I probably did it at the last minute for a conference
> presentation (the log indicates it was done in the 4.14 timeframe) and
> then forgot to repost the patches, which would explain why it's still
> nicely compiling for me ...
> 
> I can repost so we've got code to hang the discussion on.

That would be great, thanks!

Seth