Re: [RFC][PATCH] cifs: Fix cifs_writepages_region()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Feb 24 2023 - 14:06:07 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:58 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'll apply that minimal fix for now - I think the right thing to do is
> your bigger patch, but that needs more thinking (or at least splitting
> up).

Minimal fix applied - that way I can drop this for now, and we can
discuss the whole "maybe we can just use write_cache_pages()" instead.

Because that _would_ be lovely, even if it's possible that the generic
helper might need some extra love to work better for cifs/afs.

Linus