Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932596AbcCKUEh (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:04:37 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]:35621 "EHLO mail-ob0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932436AbcCKUEa (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:04:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:04:29 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Variant symlink filesystem From: Richard Weinberger To: Cole Cc: LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 30 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Cole wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a Variant Symlink Filesystem for linux, currently > implemented as a kernel module: > https://github.com/onslauth/varsymfs > The code was written for the 3.x kernel. > > I would like to try to get this included into the linux kernel, and am > willing to hand over all copyright and change the license as needed. > As such, I would like to know what I can do to try to make this > happen. > > If the code quality or standards are not up to par with those of the > linux kernel, or code needs to change due to newer changes introduced > into the kernel, please let me know and I will endeavour to make the > necessary changes. > > Please can you also cc me in any replies, as I am not currently > subscribed to the list. Why does this need to be a kernel filesystem and not a filesystem in userspace (FUSE)? Especially as you are dealing with environment variables which are owned and controlled by userspace. -- Thanks, //richard