Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:25:52PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 07:31 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > once we put pieces in the first three patches would be useful aswell, > > to easily catch additions in the next cycle that might be adding > > NULL-vfsmount calls to dentry

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-20 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 07:31 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > once we put pieces in the first three patches would be useful aswell, > to easily catch additions in the next cycle that might be adding > NULL-vfsmount calls to dentry_open. So, we want "[PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub fun

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-17 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > hrm, well, how about putting up a complete and suitably-changelogged patch > series for Linus to look at? That's be a Dave thing I guess. I'll look at it on Wednesday. I'm offline until then. > I wasn't overawed by the initial patch - wh

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:31:29 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It would be nice if an initial patch which introduces the new > > > functionality you need for r/o bind mounts could get introduced into > > > main

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It would be nice if an initial patch which introduces the new > > functionality you need for r/o bind mounts could get introduced into > > mainline *first*, and then people could add patches that call > > mnt_want_write(), et. al in

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:30 -0500 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:49:39PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > > > > > This patch adds t

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:49:39PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > > > These are used like a lock pa

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > > These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might > > cause a write to the filesys

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might > cause a write to the filesystem. Argh, is there some reason why this couldn't have gotten me