Re: [v2][PATCH 1/5] Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>]

Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serue@us.ibm.com):
> Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> > 
> > From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:58:18 -0800
> > Subject: [v2][PATCH 1/5] Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts
> > 
> > On remount, devpts fs only needs to parse the mount options. Users cannot
> > directly create/dirty files in /dev/pts so the MS_RDONLY flag and
> > shrinking the dcache does not really apply to devpts.
> > 
> > So effectively on remount, devpts only parses the mount options and updates
> > these options in its super block. As such, we could replace do_remount_sb()
> > call with a direct parse_mount_options().
> > 
> > Doing so enables subsequent patches to avoid parsing the mount options twice
> > and simplify the code.
> 
> You've dropped the update_ptmx_mode() which you used to do
> inside devpts_remount().  Is that also on purpose?

Since it appears that mknod_ptmx() will be called anyway and
will do the same thing,

> > Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>