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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 04/12] auto-fs: rename d_count field of dentry to d_refcount
On 07/03/2013 11:50 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@hp.com> wrote:
>> Because of the d_count name change made in dcache.h, all references
>> to d_count have to be changed to d_refcount. There is no change in
>> logic and everything should just work.
> These filesystem patches need to be just joined into the same patch
> that does the d_count -> d_refcount change.
>
> Otherwise the kernel won't build in lots of configurations for some
> commits, which makes things like bisecting much more painful than it
> should be.
>
> So we can't do piece-meal changes that break the build for parts of the tree.
>
> Linus

I could change patch 3 so that I keep the d_count name, but #define
d_refcount to d_count. In that way, I can do piece-meal changes without
breaking the build. Alternatively, I could collapse patches 3-11 into a
single big patch which will be harder to review.

Regards,
Longman


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