From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752920Ab0GGBou (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:44:50 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:44069 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751311Ab0GGBot (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:44:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:44:37 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Brad Boyer , "J. R. Okajima" , Christoph Hellwig , Nick Piggin , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall? Message-ID: <20100707014437.GA1851@infradead.org> References: <20100624131455.GA10441@laptop> <7897.1277531612@jrobl> <20100626093544.GA27715@infradead.org> <13226.1277556884@jrobl> <20100705205806.GA12517@cynthia.pants.nu> <6419.1278372690@jrobl> <20100706004550.GC12517@cynthia.pants.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:45:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Let's not overdesign things. Just do something like the attached > patch, which is the obvious and straightforward thing to do. > > Overdesigning is a disease. It's fundamentally wrong. > > (Yeah, yeah,. the patch is untested, and doesn't actually _fill_ the > new f_flags value, but that's left as a trivial exercise for the > reader.) At least one of the readers posted a patch filling it in already. Need to send out the version with the review comments addressed, but I'm still waiting for Uli if he really insists on new syscall vectors for the same structure. Using that one ST_VALID bit seems a lot easier to me.