Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270806AbTHFRIy (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:08:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270813AbTHFRIy (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:08:54 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-bos.redhat.com ([66.187.230.200]:21671 "EHLO chimarrao.boston.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270806AbTHFRIS (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:08:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:08:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Steve Dickson cc: Neil Brown , , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH] kNFSd: Fixes a problem with inode clean up for vxfs In-Reply-To: <3F3128A4.8030305@RedHat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 24 On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Steve Dickson wrote: > This a patch I've received from Veritas. Supposedly they have > already submitted this but I can't seem to find it in any 2.4 trees.. > > Does anybody recognize this and are there any known issues with it? It makes me wonder what is so special about vxfs that they need to modify GPL code in order for it to work ... Not that I'm against this change in principle, but I'd just like it to be useful for GPL software too, otherwise it'd just be a hook for non-GPL software and a fine line to a GPL violation. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/