Re: [PATCH 04/23] vfs: Introduce infrastructure for revoking a file

Linus Torvalds
2009-06-03T14:54:00Z

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Why is it called hotplug? Does it have anything to do with hardware?
> Because every concurrently changed software data structure in the
> kernel can be "hot"-modified, right?
>
> Wouldn't file_revoke_lock be more appropriate?

I agree, "hotplug" just sounds crazy. It's "open" and "revoke", not
"plug" and "unplug".

Linus