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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] vfs: Implement mount_super_once
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> The devpts filesystem has a notion of a system or primary instance of
> devpts.  To retain the notion of a primary system instance of devpts
> the code needs a way to allow userspace to mount the internally
> mounted instance of devpts when it is not currently mounted by
> userspace.  The new helper mount_super_once allows that.

This is where I stopped reading this patch series.

No.

We want to get *rid* of the idiotic "primary instance" crap.

The whole and only point of doing the "which pts filesystem am I
associated with" for ptmx is to stop the idiotic "one devpts is
pecial".

I don't want to see 16 random patches.

I want to see *one* patch that makes /dev/ptmx look up the pts
filesystem, and be done with it.

Plonk.

                   Linus