linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] mount API series

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:18:19 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] mount API series

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:34 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>         mount API series from David Howells.  Last cycle's objections
> had been of the "I'd do it differently" variety and with no such
> differently done variants having ever materialized over several
> cycles...

Having just lurked on the discussions about the bugs in here, I don't
think this is ready. Maybe they got fixed, but if so, it was recent
and it was pretty fundamental.

The stated aim of the series is to make the mount API _better_, not
worse. And right now it looks like a "two steps back, one theoretical
step forwards" kind of better.

              Linus