On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 05:54:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes. And honestly, I'd rather have these kinds of "just change the > calling convention" almost automated patches separately - and then the > cleanups later. > > Mixing the calling convention change and the cleanup together is just > confusing and potentially causes subtle issues.
A lot of the issues here is that the initramfs / do_mount code is written as if it was user space code, but in kernel space. E.g. using file desriptors etc. I think doing one or a few patches before this series to sort this out would really reduce the scope of work and be the right thing. For any additional minor cleanups I agree that it might make sense to postpone them.
