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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	serue@us.ibm.com, sukadev@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbacik@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single	andmultiple-instancemounts
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:19:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A08A472.20809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511221502.GA32530@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> 
> I tested this patch by directly calling the system call mount() with a NULL
> data parameter. If you/Eric/Peter can confirm that this works for you, I will
> send this patch to Andrew.
> 

Makes a lot more sense to me.  In particular, NULL should be handled the 
same as "".

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-11 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07 18:08 [PATCH 0/5][v2] Simplify devpts code Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:10 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:17   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:11 ` [v3][PATCH 2/5] Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:11 ` [v3][PATCH 3/5] Move common mknod_ptmx() calls into caller Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:12 ` [v3][PATCH 4/5] Remove get_init_pts_sb() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:12 ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single and multiple-instance mounts Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-07 20:35   ` Eric Paris
2009-05-07 21:24     ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-07 22:33       ` Eric Paris
2009-05-07 23:18         ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single and multiple-instancemounts Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-07 23:21           ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single andmultiple-instancemounts Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-08 13:53             ` Peter Staubach
2009-05-09  3:17             ` Marc Dionne
2009-05-11 22:15               ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-05-11 22:19                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-11 22:37                 ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for singleandmultiple-instancemounts Serge E. Hallyn
2009-05-11 22:46                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-11 22:40                 ` [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single andmultiple-instancemounts Andrew Morton
2009-05-11 23:09                   ` Eric Paris
2009-05-11 23:00                 ` Marc Dionne
2009-03-07 18:14 ` [v3][PATCH 2/5] Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-03-07 18:16 ` [v3][PATCH 1/5] Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts Sukadev Bhattiprolu

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