Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] Convert vfs.txt to vfs.rst

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Apr 03 2019 - 15:35:41 EST


On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:55:01AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:

> It seems very likely that this was just a subtlety that I missed.
> I doesn't help that "ino" isn't actually and inode and isn't freed like
> an inode, but that is no excuse.
>
> When we add the rcu_head linkage to 'struct autofs_info', we might as
> well remove the 'struct inode' from there - it doesn't seem to have been
> used for years.

Umm... I can do that, but then we get greater potential for conflicts
and the whole thing might be better off in autofs tree. Ian, up to you -
I can throw both into a never-rebased branch, so you could merge it
into your tree; the first one is -stable fodder, though...