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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [EXPERIMENT,RFC] FAT: Add "flush" option for hotplug devices
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:56:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051022105632.GA3027@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hdb9de44.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:45:31PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> 
> >> +++ linux-2.6.14-rc4-hirofumi/fs/fat/flush.c	2005-10-21 00:25:22.000000000 +0900
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
> >> +/*
> >> + * Copyright (C) 2005, OGAWA Hirofumi
> >> + * Released under GPL v2.
> >> 
> > Except for placing the flush time in the msdosfs SB there is nothing
> > filesystem-specific in this file.  Please place it in generic code,
> > that way there's no reason to export all these deeply internal
> > symbols either.
> 
> OK, except filemap_write_and_wait().
> 
> Many filesystems does
> 
> 	filemap_fdatawrite(mapping);
> 	filemap_fdatawait(mapping);
> 
> Don't you want filemap_write_and_wait()?

Yes, that doesn't fall under the odd exports above.  Care to submit a patch to
export it (non-_GPL) and convert all users of the above pattern to it?


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-22 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-20 16:41 [EXPERIMENT,RFC] FAT: Add "flush" option for hotplug devices OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-10-20 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-20 21:08   ` running linux TCP/IP stack on a real slow machine Kallol Biswas
2005-10-22  7:45   ` [EXPERIMENT,RFC] FAT: Add "flush" option for hotplug devices OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-10-22 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-22 10:45   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-10-22 10:56     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-10-22 11:24       ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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