From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/28] VFS: Remove MNT_EXPIRE support Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:16:21 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041025151621.GA1805@infradead.org> References: <10987153211852@sun.com> <10987153522992@sun.com> <20041025150446.GB1603@infradead.org> <417D17C0.3010202@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net Return-path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:59916 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261948AbUJYPQW (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:16:22 -0400 To: Mike Waychison Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417D17C0.3010202@sun.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:12:00AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:42:32AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > >>Drop support for MNT_EXPIRE (flag to umount(2)). Nobody was using it and it > >>didn't fit into the new expiry framework. > > > > > > umm, this is a user API, you can't simply drop it. > > > > Is anybody using it though? doesn't matter much. Maybe Sun likes deliberately breaking user ABIs in Solaris, but in Linux we certainly don't. > Hmm. I'll think about it a while to figure out how to map this > functionality to the new expire semantics. Any suggestions? Hey, it's you who wants the new semantics. And you didn't even explain them in detail.