From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Add VFS helper functions for setting up private namespaces
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:51:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906231950030.3240@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623223230.GA30173@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> (it keeps bugging me that the order of args to list_add() gets reversed
> as a result, but clearly with both starting out empty it doesn't
> matter..)
.. and the new one is more logical. "list_add()" really adds the first
entry to the list pointed to by the second one. It _works_ the other way
too in this case, as you point out, but now that you mention it, it really
looks like the pre-patch code is "wrong".
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 19:09 [PATCH 0/5] NFS private namespace patchset Trond Myklebust
2009-06-22 19:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] VFS: Uninline the function put_mnt_ns() Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20090622190913.27923.31665.stgit-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-22 19:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Add VFS helper functions for setting up private namespaces Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20090622190913.27923.61549.stgit-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-23 20:13 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-23 21:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-06-23 22:32 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-24 2:51 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-06-22 19:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] NFS: Fix nfs_path() to always return a '/' at the beginning of the path Trond Myklebust
2009-06-22 19:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Correct the NFS mount path when following a referral Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20090622190914.27923.84173.stgit-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-23 20:42 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-23 21:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-06-22 19:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] NFSv4: Replace nfs4_path_walk() with VFS path lookup in a private namespace Trond Myklebust
2009-06-22 19:40 ` [PATCH 0/5] NFS private namespace patchset Linus Torvalds
2009-06-23 21:33 ` Al Viro
2009-06-23 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-23 23:22 ` Al Viro
2009-06-24 12:58 ` Al Viro
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