On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:52:54AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:39:12PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > If we're going to reject patches that don't implement get_parent (and I > > think we should), then we should replace "optional but strongly > > recommended" there by just "mandatory". Any objections? > > In theory yes - we'll just need an exception (or dummy implementation) > for in-memory file systems like tmpfs.
Hm, so does get_parent just never get called for tmpfs because the parent's always there already? Should be easy enough to document that exception. --b.
