Re: [PATCH 0/2] VFS: minor improvements to a couple of interfaces

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 08:42:46AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 09:25:26AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:36:46 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > >  I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to
> > >  enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive
> > >  lock on the directory.
> > >  There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS,
> > >  smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit.  Hence the long Cc line.
> > > 
> > > NeilBrown
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > I've taken your first cleanup. Thanks for splitting those out of the
> > other series.
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Applied to the vfs-6.15.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> > Patches in the vfs-6.15.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.
> 
> Might be better to put it into a separate branch, so that further
> work in that direction wouldn't be mixed with other stuff...

Yep, good call:

vfs-6.15.async.dir