From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.6-rc1
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 05:46:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120804044659.GI23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFz322dKXUwtmrrW=nfp5XJa5ACh1syE8RXOOdcA7V_76A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:23:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We have had 11 of 13 pieces of the 'sync_supers()' removal patch-sets
> > merged. The 12th piece removes dead code in exofs was supposed to go
> > through the exofs tree and blocked the 13th piece which removes
> > 'sync_supers()' and was supposed to go via the VFS tree.
> >
> > Both 12th and 13th pieces zap dead code. I man not sure delaying that to
> > v3.7 would be very beneficial for the kernel (why having a useless
> > thread waking up every 5 secs?). Would you let us merge this to -rc1?
>
> Ok. I'm pulling the exofs changes, they're small and remove more lines
> than they add. And if the last piece then just kills dead code, I
> won't mind that either.
OK... I've ported Artem's patchset on top of exofs merge; Artem, could
you check if you are OK with the result currently in vfs.git#for-linus?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-04 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 1:17 Linux 3.6-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2012-08-03 6:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-03 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-08-04 4:46 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-08-04 5:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-04 6:19 ` Al Viro
2012-08-04 7:51 ` Dongsheng Song
2012-08-04 8:19 ` Al Viro
2012-08-04 5:43 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-03 19:01 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-08-04 0:02 ` [PATCH] pstore: fix printk format warning Randy Dunlap
2012-08-04 1:15 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-08-04 1:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-08-04 1:35 ` Kees Cook
2012-08-06 16:07 ` Luck, Tony
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