Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263024AbVAFUnz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:43:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263007AbVAFUkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:40:47 -0500 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:25081 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263039AbVAFUfm (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:35:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:35:27 -0500 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports In-reply-to: <20050106191355.GA23345@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, greghk@us.ibm.com Message-id: <41DDA10F.6010805@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 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <20050106191355.GA23345@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1677 Lines: 50 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:05:38AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > >>Hello, Andrew, >> >>Some export-removal work causes breakage for an out-of-tree filesystem. >>Could you please apply the attached patch to restore the exports for >>files_lock and set_fs_root? > > > What out of tree filesystem, and what the heck is it doing? > > Without proper explanation it's vetoed. > > btw, any reason you put half the world in the Cc list? Al and Andrew I > see, but do the other people on the Cc list have to do with it? And you > forgot the person that killed the export. Well, autofsng patches (new set forthcoming) use set_fs_root/set_fs_pwd to pivot a call_usermodehelper process into the triggering process's namespace. It has no need however for files_lock. - -- 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 iD8DBQFB3aEPdQs4kOxk3/MRAlvmAJ4sXcg0Cx8+00WrNEkXW4T7Ji3tKwCfVYPO 43IFyNGeDo85sqDJCprLR8I= =Vbec -----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/