From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, notting@redhat.com,
torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce vfs_listxattr
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:33:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009133332.5c8285ce.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061009201048.GA4707@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:10:48 -0400
Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> This patch moves code out of fs/xattr.c:listxattr into a new function -
> vfs_listxattr. The code for vfs_listxattr was originally submitted by Bill
> Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> to Unionfs.
That tells us what the patch does. In general, please be sure to also tell
us *why* you prepared a patch.
Does this patch allow unionfs to be loaded into an otherwise unpatched
kernel.org kernel? If so, that seems to be a good reason for including
this patch into the mainline kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-09 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 20:10 Josef Sipek
2006-10-09 20:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-09 20:42 ` Al Viro
2006-10-09 20:46 ` Josef Sipek
2006-10-09 20:39 ` Al Viro
2006-10-10 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
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