Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754052AbYAQALL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:11:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752088AbYAQAKz (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:10:55 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55242 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752084AbYAQAKy (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:10:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:09:30 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Karel Zak , Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts Message-Id: <20080116160930.28168da3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080116234339.GG26049@petra.dvoda.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 19 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 17 2008 00:43, Karel Zak wrote: > >> > >> Seems like a plain bad idea to me. There will be any number of home-made > >> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do. > > > > So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2 ;-) > > Was not it like "don't use /proc for new things"? Well yeah. If we're going to do a brand new mechanism to expose per-mount data then we should hunker down and get it right. -- 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/