Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261208AbUJYR02 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:26:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261151AbUJYR0Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:26:24 -0400 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:13259 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261169AbUJYRQR (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:16:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:16:04 -0400 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/28] VFS: Remove MNT_EXPIRE support In-reply-to: <20041025150446.GB1603@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net Message-id: <417D34D4.3040406@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040918) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <10987153211852@sun.com> <10987153522992@sun.com> <20041025150446.GB1603@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1461 Lines: 43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:42:32AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: > >>Drop support for MNT_EXPIRE (flag to umount(2)). Nobody was using it and it >>didn't fit into the new expiry framework. > > > umm, this is a user API, you can't simply drop it. > I also wanted to add that given the current interface that is found in mainline, there is no way for userspace to even set a mountpoint as expiring. The only consumer is still AFS which handles the mark_mounts_for_expiry stuff itself. So even if userspace wanted to use MNT_EXPIRE, it couldn't. - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBfTTUdQs4kOxk3/MRAghsAJ41gA73Qov2lS6nHGcC+A3zsIc+DQCeIdCB 4XisV0zx/CvTDQpQfSfLY04= =Qj2Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/