Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:46:08 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:31:29 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > It would be nice if an initial patch which introduces the new
> > > functionality you need for r/o bind mounts could get introduced into
> > > mainline *first*, and then people could add patches that call
> > > mnt_want_write(), et. al into their trees gradually.
> > 
> > Yes, I expect that merging a handful of do-nothing mnt_foo_write()
> > functions into mainline right now would ease life.
> > 
> > > otherwise akpm gets grumpy
> > 
> > itym "less than usually cheery"
> 
> Haha,
> 
> once we put pieces in the first three patches would be useful aswell,
> to easily catch additions in the next cycle that might be adding
> NULL-vfsmount calls to dentry_open.

hrm, well, how about putting up a complete and suitably-changelogged patch
series for Linus to look at?  That's be a Dave thing I guess.

I wasn't overawed by the initial patch - why not make those stubs inlined
to truly add zero cost??


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