From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751162AbWFBCvu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:51:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751164AbWFBCvt (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:51:49 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp09.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.169]:33722 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP09.BAYC1.HOTMAIL.COM") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751162AbWFBCvt (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:51:49 -0400 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [69.156.47.88] X-Originating-Email: [johnmccuthan@sympatico.ca] Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify: split kernel API from userspace support From: John McCutchan Reply-To: john@johnmccutchan.com To: Robert Love Cc: Amy Griffis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <20060601150702.GA2171@zk3.dec.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:51:53 -0400 Message-Id: <1149216713.2865.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jun 2006 02:53:37.0359 (UTC) FILETIME=[BEEE15F0:01C685EF] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:46 -0400, Robert Love wrote: > On 6/1/06, Amy Griffis wrote: > > > The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify, > > making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's > > mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will > > maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct > > inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a > > corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and > > specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be > > called per inotify_watch. > > Thank you for breaking the patch up. Looks good to me. > > Acked-by: Robert Love Ditto -- John McCutchan