From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] locks: fix locks.c lease symbol exports Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:23:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20070630092345.GC22050@infradead.org> References: <6e0beaf3e950494a6903571f0b5c9b61fc7bf650.1183143819.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47338 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754232AbXF3JXs (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:23:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:21:28PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > From: J. Bruce Fields > > Bring lease exports into line with conventions for posix locks: > setlease() should be exported so filesystems can use it to implement > their lease methods. > vfs_setlease() need only be GPL-exported since only nfsd > needs it. The latter should be merged in the previous patch, the first should be a patch with making it non-static and exporting it. (after the rename of it is merged into the patch that introduces the vfs_setlease name)