Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753468Ab0GRIvq (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:51:46 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:46900 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753268Ab0GRIvm (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:51:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:51:40 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Howells Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] xstat: Provide a mechanism to gather extra results for [f]xstat() [ver #6] Message-ID: <20100718085140.GD27794@infradead.org> References: <20100715021709.5544.64506.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20100715021730.5544.68442.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100715021730.5544.68442.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 440 Lines: 9 As mentioned before this is total overkill. The request/respond flags together with the buffer size already provide enough ways to extent the structure in a backwards compatible way if needed. -- 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/