Re: [v6.6][PATCH 00/57] eventfs: Linus's updates for 6.6

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 20 2024 - 10:11:35 EST


On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 07:09:05AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> This is a backport of all the work that lead up to the work that Linus made
> on eventfs. I trust Linus's version more so than the versions in 6.6 and
> 6.7. There may be plenty of hidden issues due to the design.
>
> This is the update for 6.6. It includes Linus's updates as well as all the
> patches leading up to them. As the eventfs work went in in two parts, half
> went in in 6.6 and the other in 6.7, there were 6 backports that were done
> custom to 6.6 as the bugs found in 6.7 were in 6.6 but implemented
> differently. This series starts with reverting those 6 backports and then
> applying the updated patches to get to Linus's simplification.
>
> I ran these through my full test suite that I use before sending anything to
> Linus, although I did not run my "bisect" test that walks through the
> patches. The tests were just run on the end result.
>
> This was created with the following command against v6.6.15, after reverting
> the 6 patches:

All now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h