Re: [PATCH 1/8] vfs - change d_manage() to take a struct path

Ian Kent
2016-10-20T23:39:45Z

On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 12:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:33:52 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
>
> > For the autofs module to be able to reliably check if a dentry is a
> > mountpoint in a multiple namespace environment the ->d_manage() dentry
> > operation will need to take a path argument instead of a dentry.
>
> This patchset contains lots of ViroStuff. I'll queue it up for some
> testing and will go into wait-and-see mode.

Thanks Andrew.

Maybe Al has been too busy to comment, he has been on the Cc from the start.

Hopefully this email will prompt a review, Al?

>
> Some patches had an explicit From: Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> and some
> did not. I assumed that this was intended for all patches. So all
> patches now have different From: and Signed-off-by: email addresses.
> Unclear if this was your intent ;)

Umm ... sorry about that, I didn't pay enough attention to the From of the
patches when I resurrected them from an earlier attempt at this.

Since the time I did this with an earlier patch series I have elected to not
change my git config and set these in the local tree config so it shouldn't
happen for new work. I'll pay special attention to this if I need to resurrect
any other older patches too.

I know this looks confusing and isn't the best but both email addresses have
been present on my gpg key for a long time so it's verifiable the patches are
from me.

Once again sorry about that.
Ian