From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/25] vfs: add filesystem flags for atomic_open Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:33:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20120313093302.GA11797@infradead.org> References: <1331155362-11132-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <1331155362-11132-6-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, sfrench@samba.org, sage@newdream.net, ericvh@gmail.com, mszeredi@suse.cz To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1331155362-11132-6-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:22:22PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi > > Allow filesystem to select which cases it wants to perform atomic_open. Given that atomic_open is allowed to return a NULL filp and fall back to the traditional open I don't think this is needed - it can be much cleaner handled by the fs just returning NULL for that case.