Al Viro <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward
>> compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically
>> mount /proc/sys)
>
> NAK. Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break
> on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the
> kernel.
I don't much care. But we do have the infrastructure for it in the
kernel and NFS uses it. And it seems like a nice way to preserve user
space backwards compatibility, without making the code to nasty.
If we don't mind that bit of change that would make it harder to
upgrade a kernel I don't mind not doing it. It just looks like a
elegant way to handle that implementation change.
Eric
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