Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761747AbYBPAdX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:33:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753171AbYBPAdP (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:33:15 -0500 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:59510 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752543AbYBPAdO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:33:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:32:19 -0500 From: Theodore Tso To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions Message-ID: <20080216003219.GA26734@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Dave Hansen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@osdl.org References: <20080215223721.9E0A088A@kernel> <20080215223730.90A85F4A@kernel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080215223730.90A85F4A@kernel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 17 On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might > cause a write to the filesystem. Argh, is there some reason why this couldn't have gotten merged in -rc1, ahead of the rest of the patch series? This one is going to cause more cross-tree merge pain with any filesystem tree that have changes to fs/*/ioctl.c. - 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/