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Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable

From "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable
Date 2017-01-13 20:10 +0100
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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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[PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> - 2017-01-03 22:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-03 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> - 2017-01-04 07:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2017-01-13 19:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2017-01-13 20:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-01-13 21:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2017-01-13 21:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-13 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> - 2017-01-04 19:00 +0100

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