From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262254AbVAJOX7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:23:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262276AbVAJOX7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:23:59 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:45478 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262254AbVAJOX5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:23:57 -0500 Subject: Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static From: Trond Myklebust To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: viro@zenII.uk.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1105346324.4171.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20050109194209.GA7588@infradead.org> <1105310650.11315.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105345168.4171.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105346324.4171.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:23:34 -0500 Message-Id: <1105367014.11462.13.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org må den 10.01.2005 Klokka 09:38 (+0100) skreiv Arjan van de Ven: > > > is "sooner or later" and "maybe someone else uses it" worth making > > everyone elses kernel bigger by 500 bytes of code ? > > eh 60 not 500; sorry need coffee It's an API that provides *necessary* functionality for those filesystems that wish to override the standard flock(). It was very recently introduced by a third party, so we haven't had time to code up an NFS flock yet. Removing it now will just mean that we have to reintroduce it in a month or so when NFS and the other filesystems start to catch up. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust