Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:31:14PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

> AFAICT, nobody is attempting to land any major changes in any of the vfs
> remap functions during the 5.10 window -- for-next showed conflicts only
> in the Makefile, so it seems like a quiet enough time to do this.  There
> are no functional changes here, it's just moving code blocks around.
> 
> So, I have a few questions, particularly for Al, Andrew, and Linus:
> 
> (1) Do you find this reorganizing acceptable?

No objections, assuming that it's really a move (it's surprisingly easy to
screw that up - BTDT ;-/)

I have not done function-by-function comparison, but assuming it holds...
no problem.

> (2) I was planning to rebase this series next Friday and try to throw it
> in at the end of the merge window; is that ok?  (The current patches are
> based on 5.9, and applying them manually to current master and for-next
> didn't show any new conflicts.)

Up to Linus.  I don't have anything in vfs.git around that area; the
only remaining stuff touching fs/read_write.c is nowhere near those,
AFAICS.