From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946255AbXD3QNi (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:13:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945999AbXD3QN1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:13:27 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48011 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946258AbXD3QNV (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:13:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:13:18 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Latchesar Ionkov Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , V9FS Developers Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: create separate 9p client interface Message-ID: <20070430161318.GA29321@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Latchesar Ionkov , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , V9FS Developers References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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 On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:32:41AM -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > Create a separate 9P client interface that can be used outside the VFS > layer. In addition to VFS, the new interface can be used to export the > authentication channel or from other interfaces. And what exact users would that be? We have a huge dislike for putting abstractions in just for the abstractions sake, so if you want this merged you'd better present a highly useful client to that interface. Also the non-filesystem interface code shouldn't live in fs/ but rather in net/9p/