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

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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:32:19 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de, miklos@...redi.hu,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

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 merged in
-rc1, ahead of the rest of the patch series?  This one is going to
cause more cross-tree merge pain with any filesystem tree that have
changes to fs/*/ioctl.c.

							- Ted
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