From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:05:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090918150506.GA9307@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090918102540.0a683607@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:25:40AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > No, he did not point out any technical problem with the code that I can
> > find. I asked for details, but he's probably on a plane at the moment.
>
> I quote:
>
> "this touches init code to mount stuff inside the namespace fro ma
> filesystem driver which is a big no-go"
{sigh}
And I responded with a specific question about this, asking what he ment
by it, and referred to a line in the patch, as he had not pointed out
specifically what he was referring to, and asking for a clarification.
This was also the first time I had heard that complaint from what I
recall, so it was new to me.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-18 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 8:23 [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-17 12:03 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-17 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 16:35 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-09-17 17:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-17 18:59 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-09-17 19:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-18 12:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-18 13:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-18 13:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-18 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-18 14:11 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 14:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-18 14:32 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-18 14:58 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 15:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-18 15:32 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 19:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-18 14:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-17 12:57 ` Greg KH
2009-09-17 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 13:29 ` Greg KH
2009-09-17 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-18 6:03 ` Greg KH
2009-09-18 9:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-18 15:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-09-17 17:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-17 18:53 ` [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster) Ingo Molnar
2009-09-17 19:18 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-17 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 20:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-18 5:58 ` Greg KH
2009-09-25 20:49 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-27 22:52 ` Greg KH
2009-09-17 22:26 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-17 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-18 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 1:50 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 6:02 ` Greg KH
2009-09-18 11:50 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 14:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 15:05 ` Greg KH
2009-09-18 15:37 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 19:35 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 19:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-20 1:43 ` Dave Airlie
2009-09-20 15:08 ` Greg KH
2009-09-21 2:58 ` Dave Airlie
[not found] ` <ac3eb2510909200912o76e0d4e4l2dcaf352fe6b4e19@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <ac3eb2510909200914g1ed6a47cydc0edec6fff96ef4@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-21 2:59 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-20 20:32 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-09-20 17:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-18 20:58 ` [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-18 21:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 21:19 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 21:31 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-18 22:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-18 5:54 ` [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster Greg KH
2009-09-18 12:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
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