Re: [PATCH 00/79] fs: new accessors for inode->i_ctime

Christian Brauner
2023-06-23T12:43:16Z

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:52:27PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 15:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:45:05 -0400
> > Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Most of this conversion was done via coccinelle, with a few of the more
> > > non-standard accesses done by hand. There should be no behavioral
> > > changes with this set. That will come later, as we convert individual
> > > filesystems to use multigrain timestamps.
> >
> > BTW, Linus has suggested to me that whenever a conccinelle script is used,
> > it should be included in the change log.
> >
>
> Ok, here's what I have. I note again that my usage of coccinelle is
> pretty primitive, so I ended up doing a fair bit of by-hand fixing after
> applying these.
>
> Given the way that this change is broken up into 77 patches by
> subsystem, to which changelogs should I add it? I could add it to the
> "infrastructure" patch, but that's the one where I _didn't_ use it.
>
> Maybe to patch #79 (the one that renames i_ctime)?

That works. I can also put this into a merge commit or pr message.