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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:42:46 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] VFS: minor improvements to a couple of interfaces
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 09:25:26AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:36:46 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> >  I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to
> >  enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive
> >  lock on the directory.
> >  There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS,
> >  smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit.  Hence the long Cc line.
> > 
> > NeilBrown
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> I've taken your first cleanup. Thanks for splitting those out of the
> other series.
> 
> ---
> 
> Applied to the vfs-6.15.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> Patches in the vfs-6.15.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Might be better to put it into a separate branch, so that further
work in that direction wouldn't be mixed with other stuff...