Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756022AbZIQPl6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:41:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753714AbZIQPl5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:41:57 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:48573 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728AbZIQPl5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:41:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:43:25 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster Message-ID: <20090917164325.38994b47@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090917132909.GB4779@kroah.com> References: <20090917125759.GA4045@kroah.com> <20090917140548.4e6ee596@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090917132909.GB4779@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-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: 989 Lines: 22 > > I've seen nacks from Christoph and from Eric and it seems Al Viro has yet > > to review devtmpfs. I'd like to see Al's opinion personally. > > That's fine, but as it's just using the standard tmpfs interfaces that > other in-kernel virtual filesystems use, it shouldn't need that much > review. The code is quite small as well, and I thought Al was still on > an extended vacation. > > This code has been reviewed and posted numerous times for over 6 months > now, which should be plenty of time for us to be waiting for a review, > don't you? Christoph has already nacked the code and indicated some problems (albeit in his inimitably friendly fashion) so you had at least one review, you just apparently didn't like the answer. Alan -- 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/