Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable
From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Fri Jan 13 2017 - 14:04:02 EST
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:54AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
Hm, so does get_parent just never get called for tmpfs because the
parent's always there already?
Should be easy enough to document that exception.
--b.