From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:13:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20080904101326.GD20055@kernel.dk> References: <20080828135245.GA12410@infradead.org> <20080902072642.GX20055@kernel.dk> <20080903020629.GS28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080903020629.GS28946-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Peter Osterlund , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich , Kernel Testers List On Wed, Sep 03 2008, Al Viro wrote: > 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. So what's your plan with this - 2.6.28? -- Jens Axboe