Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-16T06:33:16Z

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It would be nice if an initial patch which introduces the new
> > functionality you need for r/o bind mounts could get introduced into
> > mainline *first*, and then people could add patches that call
> > mnt_want_write(), et. al into their trees gradually.
>
> Yes, I expect that merging a handful of do-nothing mnt_foo_write()
> functions into mainline right now would ease life.
>
> > otherwise akpm gets grumpy
>
> itym "less than usually cheery"

Haha,

once we put pieces in the first three patches would be useful aswell,
to easily catch additions in the next cycle that might be adding
NULL-vfsmount calls to dentry_open.