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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:35:18 -0700
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:20:20 +0200
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:

> Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
> completely.

We could withdraw simple_prepare_write() too, I guess.  But there's
some risk that out-of-tree filesystems might be using it within their
write_begin() implementations.