Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932990AbXJMSMY (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:12:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762037AbXJMSMH (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:12:07 -0400 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:55160 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761931AbXJMSMF (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:12:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:11:37 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: David Howells Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, kwc@citi.umich.edu, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record Message-ID: <20071013181137.GA9051@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , David Howells , viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, kwc@citi.umich.edu, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20071012160519.15119.69608.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071012160519.15119.69608.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 13 Hi David, I'm going to ask a stupid question, and I probably missed something in the 52 patches, but.... I see how the credential is used to do access checks, but why does the credentials record need to passed all the way into block allocator? What is it used for there? - Ted - 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/