Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262170AbUDUNsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:48:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262190AbUDUNse (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:48:34 -0400 Received: from wombat.indigo.net.au ([202.0.185.19]:12293 "EHLO wombat.indigo.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262170AbUDUNsd (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:48:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:52:01 +0800 (WST) From: raven@themaw.net To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Andrew Morton , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc1-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20040421141901.B5551@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20040418230131.285aa8ae.akpm@osdl.org> <20040419202538.A15701@infradead.org> <20040419182657.7870aee9.akpm@osdl.org> <20040421100835.A3577@infradead.org> <20040421141901.B5551@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.7, required 8, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, NO_REAL_NAME, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_PINE) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 27 On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:39:59PM +0800, raven@themaw.net wrote: > > While I understand the motive for not exporting the lock the question of > > how one should obtain vfsmount structs when needed remains? > > You shouldn't. > Shouldn't need them? But your point is that they shouldn't need to be used and an different design is should be used, right. Could make life hard for the automounter. Possibly somewhat harder to solve the remaining limitations of autofs. But I haven't got a clear enough picture of what's needed yet (still). I guess your point is that these services should reside in the VFS proper? 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/