Jeff Layton [off-list ref] wrote:

Does this change require any of the earlier patches in the series? If
not, then it may be good to go ahead and merge this conversion
separately, ahead of the rest of the series.

There's a conflict with patch 1 - you can see the same changes made to afs and
ceph there, but apart from that, no.  However, I can't do patch 6 without it
being applied first.  If Dominique or one of the other 9p people can get Linus
to apply it now, that would be great, but I think that unlikely since the
merge window has passed.

David