linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/6] vfs: mountinfo update

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:53:15 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] vfs: mountinfo update

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:26:41 +0100
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here are several updates to the /proc/<pid>/mountinfo patch by Ram and
> me.  These hopefully address all comments by you, Al and others.
> 

diffstat for all seven patches is:

 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |   35 +++++
 fs/dcache.c                        |  101 +++++++++++---
 fs/namespace.c                     |  182 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/pnode.c                         |  131 ++++++++++++++++++-
 fs/pnode.h                         |   15 +-
 fs/proc/base.c                     |  121 +++++++++--------
 fs/seq_file.c                      |   92 +++++++++++--
 include/linux/dcache.h             |    5 
 include/linux/mnt_namespace.h      |   12 +
 include/linux/mount.h              |    2 
 include/linux/seq_file.h           |    7 +
 11 files changed, 559 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)

that's a mountain of tricksy new core-kernel code just for some /proc file.

Is this all really justifiable?
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