Re: [PATCH] hpfs: add fstrim support

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> More to the point, why bother with ->ioctl() at all?  Why not make
> ->fitrim() a super_block method and let do_vfs_ioctl() handle all
> marshalling?  As in
>         (int *)fitrim(struct super_block *, struct fstrim_range *);
> guaranteed to be called only on a filesystem kept active by caller...

I'd be ok with that, but that's a bigger issue and I think would be a
separate second step from removing the whole compat mess anyway.

                   Linus
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