Re: [PATCH 02/23] vfs: Implement unpoll_file.

Al Viro
2009-06-06T08:08:25Z

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:50:27PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com>
>
> During a revoke operation it is necessary to stop using all state that is managed
> by the underlying file operations implementation. The poll wait queue is one part
> of that state.

Erm... Seeing that drivers and filesystems tend to have fsckloads of
other state of their own, why do we treat that separately?