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Message-ID: <20110711152447.GA20501@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:24:48 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	autofs@...ux.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: Fix automount for negative autofs dentries

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:13:41PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > would do the same.
> 
> But is much less obvious.  The LOOKUP_FOLLOW flag is the primary reason for
> this statement.  The rest are subordinate and would be wholly irrelevant if
> LOOKUP_FOLLOW was to be removed from the list.

Then keep the LOOKUP_FOLLOW semi-separate as in the original code.
But there's absolutely no reason for the goto spaghetti.

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