From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263045AbVAFUjn (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:39:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263024AbVAFUfh (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:35:37 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:51389 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263014AbVAFUdB (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:33:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:32:59 +0000 From: Al Viro To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-ID: <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Yep, you win the prize, it is MVFS. > > This is the usual port of an existing body of code to the Linux kernel. > It is not asking for a new export, only restoration of a previously existing > export. Sorry, but "our code is badly misdesigned" does not make a valid excuse when you have been told, repeatedly, by many people, for at least a year that you needed to sanitize your design. Request denied. And no, it never had been intended to be exported or, indeed, used by filesystems.