Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932106AbaA3VuT (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:50:19 -0500 Received: from mail-vc0-f179.google.com ([209.85.220.179]:56097 "EHLO mail-vc0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753855AbaA3VuQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:50:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8761p1m98f.fsf@xmission.com> References: <20140126122729.32113.19659.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <8761p1m98f.fsf@xmission.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:50:15 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9gDJ9_UOhwKbQF-sIj9aBobA0PI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: proc cells and rootcell are writeable From: Linus Torvalds To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: David Howells , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Pali_Roh=C3=A1r?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > These files have been read-only since this code was merged in 2002. > Over a decade of not being used seems like a strong indication that no > one cares about the write path. I think this is a pretty strong argument. Counter-arguments, anybody? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/