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SubjectRe: VFS tree for 3.17?
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 04:41:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Hi Al,
>>
>> Do you plan to put a VFS tree together for 3.17? To me the various
>> renameat2 bits from Miklos are something I'd really prefer to not miss,
>> but there might be other bits waiting for attention as well.
>
> Another weeks has passed and I'd really like to make sure we don't
> let the VFS leap.
>
> I'll try to put together a tree over the next days so we can at least
> get a minium amount of linux-next exposure. Candidates are:
>
> - the direct-io.c warning fix from Boaz (really should 3.16 actually)
> - the unmount on symlink reference count fix

This fix is also stable material.
The issue as introduced in 3.12 by 8033426e6b
(vfs: allow umount to handle mountpoints without revalidating them)

> - the rename/rename2 patches from Mikilos. These are a bit older
> and could use a respin.
>
> Anything else I've missed?
>
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Thanks,
//richard


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