From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/26] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:37:29 -0700 Message-ID: <1182785849.26162.93.camel@localhost> References: <20070622200303.82D9CC3A@kernel> <20070622200308.A4245108@kernel> <20070623095220.76dba6bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dave Hansen , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:47894 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751876AbXFYPhc (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:37:32 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5PFWZp0009668 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:32:35 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l5PFbVgs259126 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:37:31 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l5PFbULp010114 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:37:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070623095220.76dba6bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 09:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:03:08 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > > Christoph H. says this stands on its own and can go in before the > > rest of the r/o bind mount set. > > > > --- > > > > Some filesystems forego the vfs and may_open() and create their > > own 'struct file's. > > > > This patch creates a couple of helper functions which can be > > used by these filesystems, and will provide a unified place > > which the r/o bind mount code may patch. > > > > Also, rename two existing, static-scope init_file() to less > > generic names. > > the sysfs changes are no longer applicable here due to pending changes in > Greg's tree. > > The net/socket.c change is a mystery. My version of sock_attach_fd() > doesn't look like yours. Should I rebase them on top of -mm, or a just current -rc? -- Dave