Re: [RFC] VFS: Export dquot_send_warning

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Sep 26 2009 - 12:29:56 EST


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It would be useful to have a generic method of sending quota messages
> to userspace. The dquot code has such a method, but it can only currently
> be used by that code, so I'm wondering whether there would be any objections
> to exporting it so that other (non-dquot) filesystems could use it?
>
> My proposed (first draft) patch is below,

If you want to use it without the "generic" quotas it needs to move
from dquota.c to quota.c. And of course a user in the patch series
makes the likelyhood of getting this included muc higher :)

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