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Message-ID: <4ABB39B1.4000905@themaw.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:19:45 +0800
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	Yehuda Saheh <yehuda@...dream.net>,
	Jim Garlick <garlick@...l.gov>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS locking
 change

Ian Kent wrote:
> A change to the VFS path walk locking is needed to resolve an issue
> identified by Sage Weil. This locking change requires significant
> changes to the autofs4 module to allow it to callback to userspace
> without introducing a deadlock.

Oops, meant to say this series is against the current Linus tree and not
  the current mm tree. However, I don't expect there will be differences
in the autofs4 patches.

Ian

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