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Message-ID: <20090926162951.GA12397@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:29:51 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] VFS: Export dquot_send_warning

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be useful to have a generic method of sending quota messages
> to userspace. The dquot code has such a method, but it can only currently
> be used by that code, so I'm wondering whether there would be any objections
> to exporting it so that other (non-dquot) filesystems could use it?
> 
> My proposed (first draft) patch is below,

If you want to use it without the "generic" quotas it needs to move
from dquota.c to quota.c.  And of course a user in the patch series
makes the likelyhood of getting this included muc higher :)

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