Re: [PATCH 06/13] staging/lustre/llite: remove ll_d_root_ops

[Peng Tao]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 10:56:58PM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
>> From: Lai Siyao <laisiyao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Mnt root dentry will never be revalidated, but its d_op->d_compare
>> will be called for its children, to simplify code, we use the same
>> ll_d_ops as normal dentries.
>> But its attribute may be invalid before access, this won't cause
>> any issue because it always exists, and the only operation depends
>> on its attribute is .permission, which has revalidated it in lustre
>> code.
>>
>> So it's okay to remove ll_d_root_ops, and remove unnecessary checks
>> in lookup/revalidate/statahead.
>
> This breaks the build.
>
> It's as if you aren't testing this.
>
err... I tested the series as a whole but it turns out this breakage
got fixed in the next patch. Looks like I should really have tested
every single patch instead.

sorry...

> I'm really tired of this, I really don't want to take any more patches
> from you for a while, as I dread them every time I see a series sent by
> you for this codebase.
>
I'll give you a break then... sorry for getting you annoyed.

Thanks,
Tao
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