From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:52:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170113185254.GA6092@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170113173912.GH24709@fieldses.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-13 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-03 21:30 [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Fabian Frederick
2017-01-03 22:29 ` Al Viro
2017-01-04 5:53 ` Fabian Frederick
2017-01-13 17:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-01-13 18:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-01-13 19:03 ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-01-13 19:57 ` Al Viro
2017-01-13 20:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-01-04 17:51 ` Fabian Frederick
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