Re: [PATCH] v4: merged utimensat implementation

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:23:58 -0400
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:

> I took Alexey's lutimes patches and merged it with the utimensat patch.
> Fortunately Alexey already did most of the work, the conversion to
> timespec.  I just changed the name of the syscall, made the flag part
> of the syscall parameters, and did away with the old do_utimes definition
> (the new do_utimes takes a timespec and a flag now).  All five patches
> patches are rolled into one.
> 
> Note, at userlevel I don't intend to expose the flags parameter.  We'll
> have separate utimensat and lutimensat interfaces.  But there is no
> reason to duplicate all that code in the kernel.

Could we please have a signoff for this work from Alexey and a changelog
for the commit?  I could grab the description from the initial utimensat
email, but I guess it needs updating now.