On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:56:27 -0700
Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:44:18 +0100
> > Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:27:18AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > > If we can't pull the entire series into -mm, can we just put the
> > > > first three patches for now? They can stand on their own.
> > >
> > > Yes, they're kinda a series of their own. But I still think we really
> > > want this in -mm. As we've seen on the kernel summit there's a pretty
> > > desparate need for it. And there's not many changes in this area in
> > > -mm, maybe the unprivilegued mounts. I'd personally prioritize the
> > > r/o bindmounts over them as they're more needed and we need more reviewing
> > > of the unprivilegued mounts (I'll try to come back to that soon).
> >
> > What's the situation on unprivileged mounts? iirc, it's all a bit stuck.
> >
> > If unpriv-mounts code isn't going to go into mainline ahead of r/o bind
> > mounts then it'd make a big mess to prepare the r/o bind mount patches on
> > top of unprivileged mounts.
> >
> > It sounds like a better approach would be for me to merge the r/o bind
> > mounts code and to drop (or maybe rework) the unprivileged mounts patches
>
> I actually don't think they collided too much. There were a couple of
> patches, like maybe 2 or 3 that needed any futzing at all.
>
> I'll cook up a set straight on top of mainline if that helps.
>
That sounds good, thanks.
There may be collisions with unionfs too, but if that happens in a
non-trivial way I may just drop unionfs - it doesn't look like it's
going to get there in its present form.
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