Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward >> compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically >> mount /proc/sys) > > NAK. Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break > on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the > kernel.
I don't much care. But we do have the infrastructure for it in the kernel and NFS uses it. And it seems like a nice way to preserve user space backwards compatibility, without making the code to nasty. If we don't mind that bit of change that would make it harder to upgrade a kernel I don't mind not doing it. It just looks like a elegant way to handle that implementation change. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
