Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Fri Feb 15 2008 - 19:33:25 EST


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write().
> These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might
> cause a write to the filesystem.

Argh, is there some reason why this couldn't have gotten merged in
-rc1, ahead of the rest of the patch series? This one is going to
cause more cross-tree merge pain with any filesystem tree that have
changes to fs/*/ioctl.c.

- Ted
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