Re: [PATCH 1/1] fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Oct 14 2014 - 18:43:56 EST


On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:24:02 +0200 Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
>
> the patch in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/3/56
> and cited below was reviewed by Jan Kara.
>

Jan wondered why we generate events for FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, so other
people will wonder the same thing. We should tell them. Via code
comments and/or changelogging.

Any question which a reviewer asks should be viewed as a defect in the
patch. The patch isn't finished until people can read it without
having questions.

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