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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] file: always lock position
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 03:43:20PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I don't think we have any free flags, but I didn't check. The ugly
> 
> We do. Christoph freed up 3 last cycle. I think I mentioned it in one my
> prs. (And btw, we should probably try to get rid of a few more.)

I have a half-backed series to move all the static capabilities into
a new field in struct file_operations.  That gives us almost half a dozen
back.  I wanted to finish it for this merge window, but there are too
many conflicting other things going on, so it will have to wait a bit
longer.