From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
raven@themaw.net, npiggin@kernel.dk, autofs@linux.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/18] Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount()
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:46:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimNxYf50pmr3j0OLicFj57rJ7TzcXF3aMQM7JPE@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110115133029.GN19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> > AFAICS, it keeps your write-free objectives and gets much saner API.
>> > Shout if you have problems with that...
>>
>> No that sounds good, I don't have a problem with it, although I don't
>> exactly understand what you're getting at in the second paragraph.
>
> OK, I have a hopefully sane implementation in tip of #untested.
This looks fine to me. Care to add a little comment above
mnt_make_longterm that it requires switching to a short term
mount before mntput()?
Thanks,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-15 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 21:53 [PATCH 00/18] Introduce automount support in the VFS [ver #4] David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 01/18] Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link() " David Howells
2011-01-16 0:09 ` Al Viro
2011-01-16 1:17 ` Al Viro
2011-01-16 18:12 ` David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 02/18] Add a dentry op to allow processes to be held during pathwalk transit " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 03/18] From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 04/18] AFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link() " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 05/18] NFS: " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 06/18] CIFS: " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 07/18] Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 08/18] autofs4: Add d_automount() dentry operation " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 09/18] autofs4: Add d_manage() " David Howells
2011-01-14 13:51 ` Ian Kent
2011-01-14 14:37 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 15:47 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 15:35 ` David Howells
2011-01-14 15:46 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 10/18] autofs4: Remove unused code " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 11/18] autofs4: Clean up inode operations " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 12/18] autofs4: Clean up dentry " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 13/18] autofs4: Clean up autofs4_free_ino() " David Howells
2011-01-14 16:03 ` Al Viro
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 14/18] autofs4: Fix wait validation " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 15/18] autofs4: Add v4 pseudo direct mount support " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 16/18] autofs4: Bump version " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 17/18] Remove a further kludge from __do_follow_link() " David Howells
2011-01-13 21:55 ` [PATCH 18/18] Allow d_manage() to be used in RCU-walk mode " David Howells
2011-01-14 7:02 ` [PATCH 00/18] Introduce automount support in the VFS " Al Viro
2011-01-14 7:05 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 11:20 ` David Howells
2011-01-14 11:43 ` David Howells
2011-01-14 15:46 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 17:26 ` [PATCH 19/18] Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount() David Howells
2011-01-14 17:43 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 17:56 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 18:06 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 22:07 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-15 13:30 ` Al Viro
2011-01-15 18:33 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-16 0:24 ` Al Viro
2011-01-16 1:21 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-15 18:46 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2011-01-14 17:30 ` David Howells
2011-01-14 11:54 ` [PATCH 00/18] Introduce automount support in the VFS [ver #4] David Howells
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