Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261204AbVAGCQX (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:16:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261161AbVAGATN (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:19:13 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:53948 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261399AbVAGAQs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:16:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro , paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105053007.17176.291.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:11:17 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 591 Lines: 14 On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 23:26, Andrew Morton wrote: > I think the exports should be restored. So does Linus ("Not that I like it > all that much, but I don't think we should break existing modules unless we > have a very specific reason to break just those modules."). What happens when the feature is just not (ab)usable in the way proposed ? - 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/