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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, rml@novell.com,
	kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, zbr@ioremap.net,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:06:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217150613.bf787435.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081217185941.2188.49536.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com>

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:59:41 -0500
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> Creating a generic filesystem notification interface, fsnotify, which will be
> used by inotify, dnotify, and eventually fanotify is really starting to
> clutter the fs directory.  This patch simply moves inotify and dnotify into
> fs/notify/inotify and fs/notify/dnotify respectively to make both current fs/
> and future notification tidier.
> 

I have no objections.

> ---
> 
>  fs/Kconfig                       |   39 --
>  fs/Makefile                      |    5 
>  fs/dnotify.c                     |  194 --------
>  fs/inotify.c                     |  913 --------------------------------------
>  fs/inotify_user.c                |  778 --------------------------------
>  fs/notify/Kconfig                |    2 
>  fs/notify/Makefile               |    2 
>  fs/notify/dnotify/Kconfig        |   10 
>  fs/notify/dnotify/Makefile       |    1 
>  fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c      |  194 ++++++++
>  fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig        |   27 +
>  fs/notify/inotify/Makefile       |    2 
>  fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c      |  913 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c |  778 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  14 files changed, 1931 insertions(+), 1927 deletions(-)

But I don't want to carry the patch in -mm - I'm not well set up for
large file movement patches and they're a pita to carry.

git does a good job of this and perhaps we can persuade Al to carry
this patch in the vfs tree.  Otherwise I'd suggest that you send it in
to Linus lateish in the 2.6.29-rc1 merge window.  Please remember to cc
me on that email.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 18:59 [PATCH] filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification Eric Paris
2008-12-17 19:26 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-17 23:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-26  6:34   ` Al Viro
2008-12-17 23:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 23:23   ` Eric Paris

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