Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758055AbZFBRHv (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:07:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754911AbZFBRHm (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:07:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47438 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753939AbZFBRHl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:07:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:06:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Nick Piggin cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Al Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Tejun Heo , Alexey Dobriyan , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/23] vfs: Introduce infrastructure for revoking a file In-Reply-To: <20090602071411.GE31556@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <1243893048-17031-4-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <20090602071411.GE31556@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Why is it called hotplug? Does it have anything to do with hardware? > Because every concurrently changed software data structure in the > kernel can be "hot"-modified, right? > > Wouldn't file_revoke_lock be more appropriate? I agree, "hotplug" just sounds crazy. It's "open" and "revoke", not "plug" and "unplug". Linus -- 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/