Re: [patch 5/6] fs: d_compare change for rcu-walk

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 20:48:45 EST


On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:02:35AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > cifs and jfs contain the non-trivial changes, where they no longer
> > overwrite dentry name in their d_compare(), but rather use the
> > d_revalidate() method for ensuring case preservation in the presence
> > of negative dentries, taken from fatfs.
>
> Please split these out to separate patches, and make sure you get

Yeah, good suggestion.

> a review and testing from the jfs and cifs maintainers. I don't think
> this is .37 material any more.

We'll see. It's pretty trivial to test really, and method reused
from fatfs.

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