From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932609AbVHJXmx (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:42:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932608AbVHJXmx (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:42:53 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:25864 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932609AbVHJXmw (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:42:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:42:46 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins , David Howells Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS Message-ID: <20050810234246.GT4006@stusta.de> References: <42F57FCA.9040805@yahoo.com.au> <20050808145430.15394c3c.akpm@osdl.org> <200508110812.59986.phillips@arcor.de> <200508110823.53593.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508110823.53593.phillips@arcor.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:23:53AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Note: I have not fully audited the NFS-related colliding use of page flags bit > 8, to verify that it really does not escape into VFS or MM from NFS, in fact > I have misgivings about end_page_fs_misc which uses this flag but has no > in-tree users to show how it is used and, hmm, isn't even _GPL. What is up? > > And note the wrongness tacked onto the end of page-flags.h. I didn't do it! This is provide-a-filesystem-specific-syncable-page-bit.patch, and it's only in -mm. Since this was done only for CacheFS, and Andrew dropped CacheFS from -mm he could drop this patch as well. > Regards, > > Daniel cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed