Re: [PATCHv4 01/17] VFS: introduce helpers for the s_dirty flag

[tytso@mit.edu]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:17:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > The real issue is that it's almost certainly an overdesign.  Let's
> > get rid of the bogus uses first and figure out what's happening in
> > what remains, OK?
> 
> That would be good.

Can we figure out what the new names will be for these accessor
functions, and then pursuade Linus to be willing to add patch #1 in
this series to add these accessor functions (without any users for
these functions, that would wait until the next merge window) to
2.6.35-rc3 or -rc4, please?

It will make life much easier for fs maintainers to merge the patches,
especially if they've done some cleanup to reduce the bogus places
where s_dirt was getting set in the first place.  That way I can apply
my patch to reduce the use of s_dirt[1], then apply a patch I carry in
my own tree to convert to the new accessor functions without worrying
about patch conflicts.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/19499

Thanks,

						- Ted