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Subject: Re: [132/262] vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag
From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 07:15 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:30:36PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > I was going to say we need commits
> > 815d405ceff0d6964683f033e18b9b23a88fba87 and
> > b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594 but I see those patches are
> > present in stable-queue repo along with
> > 5c8a0fbba543d9428a486f0d1282bbcf3cf1d95a.
> > 
> > This last commit is, as Linux points out, open to question, although if
> > it was an autofs mount point that status is not really useful to the
> > user. OTOH for other fs (that use automounting) the status of the file
> > system containing the mount point might be useful but possibly
> > misleading. IMHO I'd include this commit as well.
> 
> So I don't need to do anything different here from what I am doing?

That's right, assuming the (three) commits I referred to above are in
fact going in along with the three patches here. I assume they are since
they are in the stable-queue repo.

That last paragraph just says that the third commit I referred to is
optional but recommended IMO.

Ian