Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264386AbUAHMeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:34:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264409AbUAHMeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:34:23 -0500 Received: from mail-02.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.34]:3558 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264386AbUAHMeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:34:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:35:07 +0800 (WST) From: Ian Kent To: Mike Waychison cc: Jim Carter , autofs mailing list , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs In-Reply-To: <3FFC8E5B.40203@sun.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: 741 Lines: 22 On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Mike Waychison wrote: > > This is a good example of why this stuff should probably be merged into > VFS, autofs4 has yet to be updated to use this lock. This comes with > the decision to a) no longer support it as a module, only built in, or > b) make vfsmount_lock accessible to modules. Please don't say it this way. A new implementation may mean current autofs becomes depricated but this is a deprecation process, not a slash and burn, and needs to be managed. Ian - 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/