Re: [RFC] VFS: Export dquot_send_warning

[Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 12:29 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It would be useful to have a generic method of sending quota messages
> > to userspace. The dquot code has such a method, but it can only currently
> > be used by that code, so I'm wondering whether there would be any objections
> > to exporting it so that other (non-dquot) filesystems could use it?
> > 
> > My proposed (first draft) patch is below,
> 
> If you want to use it without the "generic" quotas it needs to move
> from dquota.c to quota.c.  And of course a user in the patch series
> makes the likelyhood of getting this included muc higher :)
> 

Yes, I have a patch to make use of this from GFS2 though I didn't sent
it in the first instance as its trivial and I was more worried about the
generic idea being acceptable. Anyway, I'll send an updated patch,
including moving/renaming where required, shortly,

Steve.