Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751693AbdINUM1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:12:27 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:50311 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751330AbdINUM0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:12:26 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QATyckydZxTrGrmLXgOWxPG0Xg20MRgekfMaDFFrl6DCGS4D14u5MjJPOsfB2NRPacrYw4GfL1zJkBGO29zhRE= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [176.63.54.97] In-Reply-To: References: <20170913140528.GA19278@veci.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu> From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:12:24 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.14 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , "linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org" 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: 393 Lines: 11 On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > If you can't bother to try to make it act as a proper VFS thing, then > I don't want to see patches from you to the VFS code. I was saying that it's a bad idea to mix external and internal flags. That was the reason the two were separated on that API. I'm open to arguments about that. Thanks, Miklos