From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>,
"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:44:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100707014437.GA1851@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikoD1OPjVcyvAAJ0QO6dGJxv40Np6LgRQ7X4tMM@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-24 13:14 [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall? Nick Piggin
2010-06-24 14:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-06-24 14:36 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-24 14:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2010-06-24 14:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-06-24 14:37 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2010-06-24 14:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-06-25 3:50 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-24 23:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-25 6:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-24 23:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-25 4:01 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-25 4:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2010-06-25 17:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-25 17:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-25 18:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-25 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-25 19:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-26 5:53 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-06-26 9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26 12:54 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-07-05 20:58 ` Brad Boyer
2010-07-05 23:31 ` J. R. Okajima
2010-07-06 0:45 ` Brad Boyer
2010-07-06 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 1:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-07-07 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-26 14:49 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-26 10:13 ` Andi Kleen
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