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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:11:11 +0800
From: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [132/262] vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 07:15 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:30:36PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > I was going to say we need commits
> > 815d405ceff0d6964683f033e18b9b23a88fba87 and
> > b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594 but I see those patches are
> > present in stable-queue repo along with
> > 5c8a0fbba543d9428a486f0d1282bbcf3cf1d95a.
> >
> > This last commit is, as Linux points out, open to question, although if
> > it was an autofs mount point that status is not really useful to the
> > user. OTOH for other fs (that use automounting) the status of the file
> > system containing the mount point might be useful but possibly
> > misleading. IMHO I'd include this commit as well.
>
> So I don't need to do anything different here from what I am doing?
That's right, assuming the (three) commits I referred to above are in
fact going in along with the three patches here. I assume they are since
they are in the stable-queue repo.
That last paragraph just says that the third commit I referred to is
optional but recommended IMO.
Ian
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