Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

Al Viro
2008-09-03T02:06:29Z

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:26:43AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster. The right things to
> > pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device. Al had
> > all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary
>
> Completely agreed. Al, I remember talking to you about this at the
> storage summit back in february. What are your current plans wrt moving
> this forward?

Rebased, with nfs parts of fmode_t patch taken out (irrelevant for
bdev anyway and really better off in intent-killing queue). Other
than that, it's a straight port... Same place, same branch.