| Message ID | YRdp2yz+4Oo2/zHy@infradead.org (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [GIT,PULL] configfs fix for Linux 5.14 | expand |
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:00 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > configfs fix for Linux 5.14 > > - fix to revert to the historic write behavior (Bart Van Assche) It would have been lovely to see what the problem was, but the commit doesn't actually explain that. I suspect it's this https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/26/581 but there might have been more. Linus
The pull request you sent on Sat, 14 Aug 2021 08:59:39 +0200:
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs.git tags/configfs-5.14
has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/118516e2127722e46c5c029010df4e8743bc9722
Thank you!
On 8/14/21 9:27 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:00 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: >> >> configfs fix for Linux 5.14 >> >> - fix to revert to the historic write behavior (Bart Van Assche) > > It would have been lovely to see what the problem was, but the commit > doesn't actually explain that. > > I suspect it's this > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/26/581 > > but there might have been more. Hi Linus, Bodo explained to me via a private email that the historic behavior is the behavior he needs for a patch that he is still working on. I'm not aware of any existing user space software that relies on the historic (non-POSIX) behavior of configfs writes. Bart.
On 14.08.21 18:27, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 9:00 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: >> >> configfs fix for Linux 5.14 >> >> - fix to revert to the historic write behavior (Bart Van Assche) > > It would have been lovely to see what the problem was, but the commit > doesn't actually explain that. > > I suspect it's this > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/7/26/581 Yes. I hope I was able to describe the changed behavior sufficiently in that mail. Thank you, Bodo > > but there might have been more. > > Linus >
The following changes since commit 36a21d51725af2ce0700c6ebcb6b9594aac658a6: Linux 5.14-rc5 (2021-08-08 13:49:31 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs.git tags/configfs-5.14 for you to fetch changes up to 769f52676756b8c5feb302d2d95af59577fc69ec: configfs: restore the kernel v5.13 text attribute write behavior (2021-08-09 16:56:00 +0200) ---------------------------------------------------------------- configfs fix for Linux 5.14 - fix to revert to the historic write behavior (Bart Van Assche) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bart Van Assche (1): configfs: restore the kernel v5.13 text attribute write behavior fs/configfs/file.c | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)