From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751203AbdAMTTu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:19:50 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:60104 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760AbdAMTTt (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:19:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:52:54 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Fabian Frederick , Al Viro , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable Message-ID: <20170113185254.GA6092@infradead.org> References: <1483479039-5255-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be> <20170103222906.GC1555@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <736635494.1055379.1483509211858.open-xchange@webmail.nmp.proximus.be> <20170113173912.GH24709@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170113173912.GH24709@fieldses.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.