From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] fs: new truncate sequence
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:48:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090707084841.GY2714@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246951751.8143.104.camel@twins>
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:29:11AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 19:47 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > All good points. I don't know what name to use though -- your idea
> > of renaming ->truncate then reusing it is nice but people will cry
> > about breaking external modules. I'll call it ->setsize and defer
> > having to think about it for now.
>
> Changing the function signature should get them a compiler warning,
> aside from that I don't think we should really consider their feelings
> anyway ;-)
Well I don't much, but some people do. Anyway I think ->setsize is
actually quite a good name on 2nd thoughts ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-07 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 16:54 [rfc][patch 1/3] fs: new truncate sequence Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 16:55 ` [rfc][patch 2/3] fs: make use of new helper functions Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 17:47 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 18:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-07-06 16:56 ` [rfc][patch 3/3] fs: convert ext2,tmpfs to new truncate Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 17:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 17:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-07 9:17 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-07 11:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-07-07 13:30 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 17:22 ` [rfc][patch 1/3] fs: new truncate sequence Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 17:47 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-07 7:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-07 8:48 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-07-06 18:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-07-06 18:10 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-07 11:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-08-15 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-15 15:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-08-15 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-15 15:36 ` Nick Piggin
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