Re: +cgroups-forbid-noprefix-if-mounting-more-than-just-cpuset-subsystem.patch added to -mm tree

From: Dhaval Giani
Date: Tue Jun 02 2009 - 13:41:13 EST


On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:08:04AM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure if this is a good idea. For libcgroup, we would then be
> > adding a special case for just cpuset. I would rather that we allow it
> > either for all the subsystems or none of them.
> >
>
> libcgroup shouldn't be using the noprefix option. Its only intentded
> use is to allow the legacy "cpuset" filesystem type to be mounted and
> to see the same fileset as it had before the cgroups transition.
>

It does not. But if some user is using that option, we need to be in a
position to handle it.

I am quite happy not supporting the noprefix option in the library if it
is fine.

Thanks,
--
regards,
Dhaval
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