Re: [PATCH 08/17] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff [try #2]

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:33:11PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> 
> Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
> declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
> mm/page-writeback.c.
> 
> The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
> references removed.
> 
> It is used by NFS to do writeback.

This duplication is rather unfortunate, but I don't see a way to distangle
this any better, so ok.

> @@ -693,6 +693,8 @@ out:
>   * the call was made get new I/O started against them.  If wbc->sync_mode is
>   * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
>   * existing IO to complete.
> + *
> + * !!!! If you fix this you should check generic_writepages() also!!!!

This isn't very elegant comment style :)  What about a little less shouting..

>  int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0);
> +extern int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
> +			      struct writeback_control *wbc);
>  int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);

please try to fit the style of the surrounding prototypes, that is no
'extern'