Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@osdl.org
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:49:39 -0800
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On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 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.

I wasn't meaning for this to hit the 2.6.25-rc series.  We had some
review comments just when the merge window opened, and I was expecting
them to get stuck back in -mm for another round.

-- Dave

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