Re: Linux 3.6-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Aug 03 2012 - 16:23:45 EST


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have had 11 of 13 pieces of the 'sync_supers()' removal patch-sets
> merged. The 12th piece removes dead code in exofs was supposed to go
> through the exofs tree and blocked the 13th piece which removes
> 'sync_supers()' and was supposed to go via the VFS tree.
>
> Both 12th and 13th pieces zap dead code. I man not sure delaying that to
> v3.7 would be very beneficial for the kernel (why having a useless
> thread waking up every 5 secs?). Would you let us merge this to -rc1?

Ok. I'm pulling the exofs changes, they're small and remove more lines
than they add. And if the last piece then just kills dead code, I
won't mind that either.

Linus
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