Re: [PATCH] autofs: show pipe inode in mount options
From: Ian Kent
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 23:43:36 EST
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:55 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 15:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:19:07 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <
> > sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ian,
> > >
> > > On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:30:17 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I haven't had anything significant enough for autofs to warrant
> > > > maintaining a tree and sending push requests so I'll need to ask
> > > > Stephen what I need to do (perhaps you could offer some advise on
> > > > that
> > > > now Stephen, please).
> > >
> > > I guess if its just a few patches every now and then, then Andrew
> > > Morton may be the best person to shepherd them upstream.
> >
> > yup, send 'em along.
> >
> > I actually was handling the autofs4 stuff back in 2014 for a bit.
>
> Thanks Andrew.
>
> Last time I tried to send the module rename series we got confused some
> how, patches not seen leading to conflicts in applying later patches
> IIRC, which lead to the recommendation I send them to linux-next.
>
> The series has grown a bit too now but I'm thinking I should send them
> in smaller groups, such as coding style fixes and white space fixes,
> change to use pr* logging, etc.
>
> Hopefully that will make the process much more straight forward.
>
> The thing is the patches are mostly not urgent which is why I keep
> postponing sending them when higher priority things come up.
>
> As for the patch from Stanislav, I'll put that at the top of my patch
> queue, have a quick look at it and send it over so that, hopefully, it
> can get merged.
>
> I'll probably send a couple of others too to get things going on with
> (what I'm calling) the module rename series.
Hi Andrew,
I've sent the first bunch of patches to get this change started, including
Stanislav's patch.
Thanks
Ian