Re: [PATCH 03/17] bit_spinlock: Prepare for split_locks

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 03:35:55PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > This changes the function signature for bit_spin_lock(), if I'm
> > reading this correctly.  Hence, this is going to break git
> > bisectability; was this patch series separated out for easy of review,
> > and you were planning on collapsing things into a single patch to
> > preserve bisectability?
> 
> It's perfectly bisectable.
> 
> Before: bit_spin_lock takes two arguments
> During: bit_spin_lock takes at least two arguments, ignores all but the first two
> After: bit_spin_lock takes three arguments

Ah, got it, thanks for the clarification!

					- Ted