On 8/15/05, Mike Waychison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Unexport __mntput() was talked about two months ago. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/9/69 > > Modules should not call __mntput() directly. If autofs or nfsd does that, > > it's > > being wrong. > > I think you missed the point in the last discussion. __mntput is called
Yes, indeed. > from mntput(), which autofs and nfsd call. Their use is correct given > what they do: > > Autofs 3 and 4 use it for walking the vfsmount tree and determining > if/when a mountpoint is ready to expire. > > Nfsd uses it to serve up nfs exports that don't cross mountpoints (or > do, if "crossmnt" is specified in /etc/exports. And more than above, there's more stuff depend on it, af_unix, ipc message queues, etc. Thanks for your help. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/ - 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/