linux-kernel - Re: [132/262] vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:15:07 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [132/262] vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:30:36PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> I was going to say we need commits
> 815d405ceff0d6964683f033e18b9b23a88fba87 and
> b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594 but I see those patches are
> present in stable-queue repo along with
> 5c8a0fbba543d9428a486f0d1282bbcf3cf1d95a.
> 
> This last commit is, as Linux points out, open to question, although if
> it was an autofs mount point that status is not really useful to the
> user. OTOH for other fs (that use automounting) the status of the file
> system containing the mount point might be useful but possibly
> misleading. IMHO I'd include this commit as well.

So I don't need to do anything different here from what I am doing?

confused,

greg k-h
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