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

Al Viro
2008-09-15T05:30:48Z

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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?

Yes. The only nastiness is around drivers/ide - there it gets a bunch of
annoying conflicts from the ide-{disk,floppy}_ioctl.c splitoff. Other than
that, it's trivially ported on top of current linux-next. Merge order is
going to be interesting - depending on whether block merge happens before
or after ide one.

I'm going to put linux-next-based series on kernel.org tonight, before
going to Portland...