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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:54AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:39:12PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > If we're going to reject patches that don't implement get_parent (and I
> > think we should), then we should replace "optional but strongly
> > recommended" there by just "mandatory". Any objections?
>
> In theory yes - we'll just need an exception (or dummy implementation)
> for in-memory file systems like tmpfs.

Hm, so does get_parent just never get called for tmpfs because the
parent's always there already?

Should be easy enough to document that exception.

--b.

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