linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/17] Make dentry::d_mounted into a more general field for special function dirs

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Message-ID: <20101008235741.GF30846@shell>
Date:	Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:57:42 -0400
From:	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro@....linux.org.uk, jmoyer@...hat.com, linux-fs@...r.kernel.org,
	autofs@...ux.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] Make dentry::d_mounted into a more general field for special function dirs

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:15:31PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Make the d_mounted field in struct dentry into a more general field for special
> function directories such as mountpoints and autofs substructures.
> 
> d_mounted is renamed d_managed, and that is split into three fields:
> 
>  (*) #define DMANAGED_MOUNTPOINT	0x0fffffff

No matter how hard I try, I always read this as "DAMAGED".  Which I
can't help but imagine subliminally influences the reader's opinion of
the patches.

Of course I am excellent at naming things, see "chunkfs" and
"relatime".  But some ideas for naming various concepts in this patch:

D_MIGHT_MOUNT
D_CHILL_OUT
D_ITS_COMPLICATED

-VAL
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