From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754069AbYE3Tcf (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 15:32:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752787AbYE3TcY (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 15:32:24 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:45135 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752284AbYE3TcX (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 15:32:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:32:07 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: mtk.manpages@googlemail.com, drepper@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3] Message-ID: <20080530193207.GB28074@parisc-linux.org> References: <482D4665.4050401@gmail.com> <48401E7E.9090304@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > For 2) you can just use permission() instead of vfs_permission() which > is exactly the same in this case (and consolidated into a common > function later in the vfs-cleanups tree). Miklos, don't delude people into thinking the vfs-cleanups tree is ever going to get merged in its current state. Al's NAKed the path_* stuff, Christoph's NAKed it too. Ignoring them and putting up a VFS tree of your own is not going to help matters. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."