linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	mjt@....msk.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	autofs@...r.kernel.org, raven@...maw.net, thomas@...3r.de,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix
 design error.

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:14:33 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:55:12 -0700
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> There's no question that systemd is broken.
>> 
>> Actually, I'll take that back.
>> 
>> Yes, systemd has breakage. But it's actually automount that is the
>> truly broken piece of sh*t.
>> 
>> I think that 'automount' is even more broken. The fact that the
>> automount maintainers knew about this, and added TOTALLY BROKEN code
>> to their automount source tree, over five years ago, because the
>> authors clearly did not understand what the f*ck they were doing,
>> that's the real problem.
> 
> I respectfully disagree.

BTW, I want to clarify that my position is that userland might have
been the best place to handle this rather than the kernel.

I fully recognize that the automountd test is busted on ppc, sparc,
et al. 
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