Re: [132/262] vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 10 2011 - 10:18:11 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:30:36PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> I was going to say we need commits
> 815d405ceff0d6964683f033e18b9b23a88fba87 and
> b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594 but I see those patches are
> present in stable-queue repo along with
> 5c8a0fbba543d9428a486f0d1282bbcf3cf1d95a.
>
> This last commit is, as Linux points out, open to question, although if
> it was an autofs mount point that status is not really useful to the
> user. OTOH for other fs (that use automounting) the status of the file
> system containing the mount point might be useful but possibly
> misleading. IMHO I'd include this commit as well.

So I don't need to do anything different here from what I am doing?

confused,

greg k-h
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