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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:36:35 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:35:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

So?  That's their risk for beeing out of tree.  Nuke it.