From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762595AbYBPGdQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:33:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751945AbYBPGdA (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:33:00 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:55456 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751512AbYBPGc7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:32:59 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:31:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Theodore Tso , haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, miklos@szeredi.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions Message-ID: <20080216063129.GA8592@lst.de> References: <20080215223721.9E0A088A@kernel> <20080215223730.90A85F4A@kernel> <20080216003219.GA26734@mit.edu> <1203122979.13230.3.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> <20080216010030.GC26734@mit.edu> <20080215171119.578bd302.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080215171119.578bd302.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.