Re: [git pull] mount API series

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 18:05:29 EST


On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:33:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Al - can I ask you to look at helping David with something like that?
> You tend to be very good at generating those patch-series with
> "obviously no changes" for the individual patches, but the end result
> ends up being totally different from the starting point (I'm thinking
> of all the locking and dentry refcounting series).

I'll try. Before we go there, I'd like to get the rest of vfs.git off
my hands - AFS series and misc pile. Will send pull requests shortly,
then - this stuff. Do you mind if we end up with work.mount rebased?
The usual objections re testing in -next do not apply in this case,
AFAICS...