From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759972AbZEKWVS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 18:21:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754587AbZEKWVB (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 18:21:01 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54214 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754504AbZEKWVA (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 18:21:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4A08A472.20809@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:19:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu CC: Marc Dionne , Eric Paris , Eric Paris , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , serue@us.ibm.com, sukadev@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbacik@redhat.com Subject: Re: [v3][PATCH 5/5] Merge code for single andmultiple-instancemounts References: <20090307180816.GA30072@us.ibm.com> <20090307181232.GF30072@us.ibm.com> <7e0fb38c0905071335g7ebe972xa82faa1161f7ff0b@mail.gmail.com> <20090507212429.GA24064@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1241735609.2907.4.camel@dhcp231-142.rdu.redhat.com> <20090507231844.GA27609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090507232110.GB27609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4A04F5D7.2050909@gmail.com> <20090511221502.GA32530@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20090511221502.GA32530@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > I tested this patch by directly calling the system call mount() with a NULL > data parameter. If you/Eric/Peter can confirm that this works for you, I will > send this patch to Andrew. > Makes a lot more sense to me. In particular, NULL should be handled the same as "". -hpa