Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

From: NeilBrown
Date: Wed Jul 16 2014 - 02:00:19 EST


On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:24:58 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately
> > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name
> > lookup.
>
> As discussed I don't have time to properly test these just now but I'll
> do my best to review the patches and return to test them later.

Thanks.

>
> My impression is that you will be submitting these patches rather than
> expecting me to pick them up and submit them. If that's not what your
> expecting please let me know.

I had assumed that you would take them as you are listed as the maintainer.
However if you would like me to send them on I can certainly do that.
You seem to send via Andrew Morton so I'll do that when they seem to be ready
if you like.

>
> I appreciate you including me in this work, all to often things get
> merged that I'm miss and while I may not have identified any problem
> with them at the time at least I would be aware of what I might need to
> look at when problems arise.
>

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I have this idea that all patches *must* at
least be Cc:ed to the maintainer and if they are as intrusive as these, they
*must* be approved. Maybe others behave different?

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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