From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754137AbZBQR12 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:27:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752755AbZBQR1T (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:27:19 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:53334 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752706AbZBQR1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:27:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH -v1 03/11] fsnotify: add in inode fsnotify markings From: Eric Paris To: Andrew Morton 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 In-Reply-To: <20090212135726.bbab736e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090209211525.8985.13887.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20090209211537.8985.73991.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20090212135726.bbab736e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:26:30 -0500 Message-Id: <1234891590.19964.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > 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!