From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 2:05:42 PM
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven French <Steven.French@microsoft.com>; Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com>; Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>; pc <pc@cjr.nz>; Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>; Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>; Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>; Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>; linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>; mm-commits@vger.kernel.org <mm-commits@vger.kernel.org>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [RFC][PATCH] cifs: Fix cifs_writepages_region()

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:58 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I'll apply that minimal fix for now - I think the right thing to do is
> your bigger patch, but that needs more thinking (or at least splitting
> up).

Minimal fix applied - that way I can drop this for now, and we can
discuss the whole "maybe we can just use write_cache_pages()" instead.

Because that _would_ be lovely, even if it's possible that the generic
helper might need some extra love to work better for cifs/afs.

Linus