From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752336Ab2JMH7b (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:59:31 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:52031 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751703Ab2JMH73 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:59:29 -0400 Message-ID: <50791DD1.7050708@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:52:49 +0200 From: Marco Stornelli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120825 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs pile 3 References: <20121013002003.GL2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <5079164D.4030307@gmail.com> <20121013075128.GQ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121013075128.GQ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Il 13/10/2012 09:51, Al Viro ha scritto: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:20:45AM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote: >> Il 13/10/2012 02:20, Al Viro ha scritto: >>> Stuff from Jeff Layton, mostly. Sanitizing interplay between >>> audit and namei, removing a lot of insanity from audit_inode() mess >>> and getting things ready for his ESTALE patchset. Please, pull from >>> the usual place - >>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus >>> >> >> Al, >> >> do you see any problem to apply the patch series "drop vmtruncate"? > > It's somewhat pointless on its own... If you were doing something with > the callers afterwards - sure, it would be make sense, but as it is... > The goal of the patch was to remove a deprecated function trying to improve the code, removing the inode operation and doing a general cleanup. It's pointless for me to have "dead"/"old" code, however thanks for you comment. Marco