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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Paul Menage <pmenage@ensim.com>
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
	jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu, braam@clusterfs.com, urban@teststation.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Push BKL into ->permission() calls
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:51:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618075118.GN22427@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17KDOn-0004vs-00@pmenage-dt.ensim.com>

On Jun 18, 2002  00:27 -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> This patch (against 2.5.22) removes the BKL from around the call 
> to i_op->permission() in fs/namei.c, and pushes the BKL into those 
> filesystems that have permission() methods that require it:
>
> Out-of-tree filesystems that have their own permission() method will 
> need updating if they're relying on the BKL.

Please update Documentation/filesystems/porting with this info as part
of your patch.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18  7:27 [PATCH] Push BKL into ->permission() calls Paul Menage
2002-06-18  7:51 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-06-18  8:27   ` Paul Menage
2002-06-18 10:36   ` 2.5.22 problems with compile.h Hans E. Kristiansen
2002-06-18 12:42     ` Martin Diehl
2002-06-18 14:36     ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-06-18 15:58       ` Hans E. Kristiansen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-10  4:50 [PATCH] Push BKL into ->permission() calls Paul Menage

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