From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751472AbWFJKWM (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751476AbWFJKWM (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:22:12 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53445 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472AbWFJKWM (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:22:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:22:11 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans Message-ID: <20060610102211.GE20526@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > ecryptfs-crypto-functions.patch > ecryptfs-debug-functions.patch > ecryptfs-alpha-build-fix.patch > ecryptfs-convert-assert-to-bug_on.patch > ecryptfs-remove-unnecessary-null-checks.patch > ecryptfs-rewrite-ecryptfs_fsync.patch > ecryptfs-overhaul-file-locking.patch > > Christoph has half-reviewed this and all the issues arising from that > have, I believe, been addressed. With the exception of the "we should > have a generic stacking layer" issue. Which is true. Michael's take is > "yes, but that's not my job". Which also is true. It's far from ready. There's various things that simply can't be done properly in a lowlevel fs or abosulutely shouldn't. And I think a few uniqueue gems in there. Most urgent thing of course is that we somehow need to deal with the idiocy of the nameidata passed into most namespace methods.