Re: [patch 0/7] vfs: mountinfo (v3)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:11:31 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:

> Here's an updated mountinfo patch with the following changes relative
> to the last submission (the one currently in -mm):
> 
>  - in __d_path() don't add extra parameter for checking unreachable path
>  - reduce proliferation of #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS into dcache.c and seq_file.c
>  - make peer group ID allocation a separate pass from setting mount shared
>  - change order and format of fields in /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
>  - remove dubious cleanups
>  - consolidate locking: don't use vfsmount_lock where namespace_sem suffices
>  - patch history was getting tangled up, merge and resplit into logical chunks
> 
> This series is also available here:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git mountinfo

I coudn't get that to work, perhaps due to lack of gittiness.

> I guess the simplest for all involved parties would be if this went
> into Al's tree (if it looks OK) and then Andrew can suck that tree (*)
> containing all sort of goodies into -mm.
> 
> (*) git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git vfs-2.6.25

I recently added that tree to the -mm lineup as git-vfs.patch, and it's in
linux-next.

This patch series applied happily on top of git-vfs (and 887 other patches ;))