From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com,
wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, greghk@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:07:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050106200738.GG1292@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050106191355.GA23345@infradead.org>
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:13:55PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:05:38AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello, Andrew,
> >
> > Some export-removal work causes breakage for an out-of-tree filesystem.
> > Could you please apply the attached patch to restore the exports for
> > files_lock and set_fs_root?
>
> What out of tree filesystem, and what the heck is it doing?
MVFS, as was correctly guessed from my diff. It is providing a view into
a source-code control system, so that a given process can specify the
version it wishes to see. Yes, different processes then see a different
filesystem tree at the same mount point.
> Without proper explanation it's vetoed.
What additional explanation are you looking for?
> btw, any reason you put half the world in the Cc list? Al and Andrew I
> see, but do the other people on the Cc list have to do with it? And you
> forgot the person that killed the export.
I figured that there was no way that you would miss it, so there was no
point in adding to an already overly long CC line. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 19:05 [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:07 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:35 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-06 20:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 21:35 ` Greg KH
2005-01-06 19:14 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 20:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:32 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 21:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 21:24 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 0:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 7:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 23:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 0:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 3:30 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-07 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-07 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 12:14 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-01-07 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 2:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 23:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-08 13:10 ` Al Viro
2005-01-07 1:34 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 23:56 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Greg KH
2005-01-07 0:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:32 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 17:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 18:11 ` Greg KH
2005-01-11 12:23 ` [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule [Was: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation] Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 23:58 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-08 18:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 23:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 6:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-09 6:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 2:02 ` [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:20 ` Al Viro
2005-01-13 2:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-13 17:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:07 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:55 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 15:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 15:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
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