Re: Linux 3.6-rc1

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:23:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

OK...  I've ported Artem's patchset on top of exofs merge; Artem, could
you check if you are OK with the result currently in vfs.git#for-linus?
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