Re: [git pull] the rest of write_one_page() series

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Apr 24 2023 - 22:35:26 EST


On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 07:24:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 9:26 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > write_one_page series
>
> Hmm. These pull requests really could have done with better descriptions.
>
> Yes, I see what it's doing, but I'd really like to have better merge
> messages from the pull request.

Point... With this one it would be along the lines of "the parts of
Christoph's write_one_page() elimination series that missed the previous
merge window".

pull-fd: "routine whack-a-mole for new unwarranted callers of fget() that
really ought to have been using fdget() - that kind of stuff keeps
cropping up and needs to be hunted down once in a while".

pull-old_dio: "For a while fs/direct-io.c had been trying to keep up with
filesystems' demands; eventually the tricky cases started to convert to
iomap-based variant, so some of the stuff added for e.g. btrfs sake had
become unused. Longer term we want to get rid of fs/direct-io.c completely,
but for now let's at least undo some of the now-useless complexity there"

pull-nios2, pull-misc: really can't improve the descriptions in those...