Re: [PATCH 05/13] vfs: don't parse "silent" option

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:36 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > What I'm saying is that with a new interface the rules need not follow
> > the rules of the old interface, because at the start no one is using
> > the new interface, so no chance of breaking anything.
>
> Er. No.  That's not true, since the old interface comes through the new one.

No, old interface sets SB_* directly from arg 4 of mount(2) and not
via parsing arg 5.

Thanks,
Miklos