Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Delete timespec64_trunc()

Al Viro
2019-12-07T06:02:09Z

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 06:43:26PM -0800, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:20 PM Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This series aims at deleting timespec64_trunc().
> > There is a new api: timestamp_truncate() that is the
> > replacement api. The api additionally does a limits
> > check on the filesystem timestamps.
>
> Al/Andrew, can one of you help merge these patches?

Looks sane. Could you check if #misc.timestamp looks sane to you?

One thing that leaves me scratching head is kernfs - surely we
are _not_ limited by any external layouts there, so why do we
need to bother with truncation?