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Message-Id: <1254122780.6052.365.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:26:20 +0100 From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [RFC] VFS: Export dquot_send_warning Hi, On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 12:29 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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 :) > Yes, I have a patch to make use of this from GFS2 though I didn't sent it in the first instance as its trivial and I was more worried about the generic idea being acceptable. Anyway, I'll send an updated patch, including moving/renaming where required, shortly, Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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