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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	hch@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, john@johnmccutchan.com, rlove@rlove.org,
	malware-list@lists.printk.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v1 03/11] fsnotify: add in inode fsnotify markings
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:26:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234891590.19964.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212135726.bbab736e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> <picks a patch at random>
> 
> I don't have a good sense of what value all of this work brings to
> Linux.  Why should I get excited about this?  Why is it all worth the
> time/effort/risk/etc which would be involved in getting it integrated?
> 
> All rather unclear, but very important!

I have largely taken your comments and rewritten this patch (and a
couple others) to be easier to understand and review.

current patches are at http://people.redhat.com/~eparis/fsnotify

I received some offline comments which I intend to address and will be
reposting later this week.

thank you!


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09 21:15 [PATCH -v1 01/11] fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:15 ` [PATCH -v1 02/11] fsnotify: add group priorities Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:15 ` [PATCH -v1 03/11] fsnotify: add in inode fsnotify markings Eric Paris
2009-02-12 21:57   ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-17 17:26     ` Eric Paris [this message]
2009-02-09 21:15 ` [PATCH -v1 04/11] fsnotify: parent event notification Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:15 ` [PATCH -v1 05/11] dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:15 ` [PATCH -v1 06/11] fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:15 ` [PATCH -v1 07/11] fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:16 ` [PATCH -v1 08/11] fsnotify: add correlations between events Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:16 ` [PATCH -v1 09/11] fsnotify: fsnotify marks on inodes pin them in core Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:16 ` [PATCH -v1 10/11] fsnotify: handle filesystem unmounts with fsnotify marks Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:16 ` [PATCH -v1 11/11] inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2009-02-09 21:28 ` [PATCH -v1 00/11] fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend Eric Paris

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