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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] vfs: update ->get_link() related documentation
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 08:17:41PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2019 03:14:23 +0100
> Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I do have problems with vfs.txt approach in general and I hope we end up
> > with per object type documents; however, that's completely orthogonal to
> > format conversion.  IOW, I have no objections whatsoever to format switch
> > done first; any migration of e.g. dentry-related parts into a separate
> > document, with lifecycle explicitly documented and descriptions of
> > methods tied to that can just as well go on top of that.
> 
> OK, great.  
> 
> That said, let's hold the format conversion for 5.3 (or *maybe*
> late-merge-window 5.2).  It's a big set of patches to shovel in at this
> point, and while it's good work, it's not screamingly urgent.  My
> suggestion would be to take Eric's stuff, it shouldn't be a problem to
> adjust to it.

OK, it's in vfs.git#work.misc; will be in #for-next when I sort the
work.icache mess out...