Re: [PATCH v4 04/12] auto-fs: rename d_count field of dentry to d_refcount

[Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>]

On 07/04/2013 12:59 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 08:50:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@hp.com>  wrote:
>>> Because of the d_count name change made in dcache.h, all references
>>> to d_count have to be changed to d_refcount.  There is no change in
>>> logic and everything should just work.
>> These filesystem patches need to be just joined into the same patch
>> that does the d_count ->  d_refcount change.
>>
>> Otherwise the kernel won't build in lots of configurations for some
>> commits, which makes things like bisecting much more painful than it
>> should be.
>>
>> So we can't do piece-meal changes that break the build for parts of the tree.
> Frankly, my preference here would be to add static inline unsigned d_count(...)
> and convert the uses of ->d_count outside of fs/{dcache.c,namei.c} and
> include/linux/dcache.c to it as the first commit.  All users outside those
> are readers, so there's no point playing with macros in this case...

Yes, I could do that.

Regards,
Longman