From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reiser4, 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 and prepare_write / commit_write
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:03:34 +0300
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To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
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Zan Lynx wrote:
> It looks like 2.6.28 committed the removal of prepare_write and
> commit_write.  They are apparently replaced with write_begin and
> write_end.
>
> I thought about trying to convert Reiser4 myself but it was already past
> midnight and it looked like it might be six hour job.
>
> The conversion does not look too complicated, but there may be some
> tricky issues.
>
> I am wondering if you are already working on this, Edward?

Yup.

This is only for loop devices, so if you don't use it,
you can get rid of reiser4_{prepare,commit}_write
and supply NULL to vfs as a temporary fixup.

Thanks,
Edward.