From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: make real_lookup do dentry revalidation with i_mutex held Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:58:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20090625135823.GA18566@infradead.org> References: <1238063926.23853.15.camel@zeus.themaw.net> <49D56DD5.80707@themaw.net> <4A4023CF.7040203@themaw.net> <4A4040AA.5030108@zytor.com> <4A432569.7050404@themaw.net> <4A437E6D.3030207@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ian Kent , Sage Weil , linux-fsdevel , Christoph Hellwig , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Al Viro , Yehuda Sadeh , Jon Masters To: "H. Peter Anvin" Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:49332 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752134AbZFYN6a (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:58:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A437E6D.3030207@zytor.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:41:01AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > There are those that may have an alias in the module-init-tools > > configuration as well. But we need get rid of that practice as well as, > > for a long time now, the alias hasn't been needed. > > > > Anyone have any thoughts how we might better handle these difficulties? > > I suspect the MODULE_ALIAS should just do it. You'll also need to register two file_system_type structures or both names. Thjose two together are everything that is needed.