linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/21] vfs: atomic open v6 (part 2)

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Message-ID: <20120610222745.GG30000@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:27:45 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] vfs: atomic open v6 (part 2)

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:10:56PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > WARNING: I haven't even tried to boot it.  It builds, but this is all I can
> > promise at the moment.  I'm about to fall down (it's 7am here already ;-/),
> > will give it some beating when I get up.  It almost certainly has bugs, so
> > consider that as call for review and not much more.
> 
> OK, it boots, mounts NFS and even manages to build a kernel on it.  Which
> probably would meet Linus' "it's perfect, ship it" criteria, so go ahead
> and beat it up, folks.

And in vfs.git#master there's a followup to that.  ->d_revalidate(),
->lookup() and ->create() are nameidata-free now.  IOW, open intents
crap is well and truly dead.  Good riddance.

Miklos, if I see you at Kernel Summit (or anywhere else, for that matter),
I owe you a bottle of booze of your choice.
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