Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964836AbWJIUei (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:34:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964835AbWJIUei (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:34:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:43432 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964834AbWJIUeh (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:34:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:33:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Josef Sipek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, notting@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce vfs_listxattr Message-Id: <20061009133332.5c8285ce.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061009201048.GA4707@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> References: <20061009201048.GA4707@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 18 On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:10:48 -0400 Josef Sipek wrote: > This patch moves code out of fs/xattr.c:listxattr into a new function - > vfs_listxattr. The code for vfs_listxattr was originally submitted by Bill > Nottingham to Unionfs. That tells us what the patch does. In general, please be sure to also tell us *why* you prepared a patch. Does this patch allow unionfs to be loaded into an otherwise unpatched kernel.org kernel? If so, that seems to be a good reason for including this patch into the mainline kernel. - 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/