On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:57:58PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> > > DAX wants different semantics from any currently-existing ext4 > get_block callback. Unlike ext4_get_block_write(), it needs to honour > the 'create' flag, and unlike ext4_get_block(), it needs to be able > to return unwritten extents. So introduce a new ext4_get_block_dax() > which has those semantics. We could also change ext4_get_block_write() > to honour the 'create' flag, but that might have consequences on other > users that I do not currently understand. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Doesn't this make the first patch in the series redundant? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
