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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	hch@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, john@johnmccutchan.com, rlove@rlove.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 09/13] fsnotify: add correlations between events
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:06:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090407160630.e478f3ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090327200554.32007.91417.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com>

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:05:54 -0400
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> inotify sends userspace a correlation between events when they are related
> (aka when dentries are moved).  This adds that same support for all
> fsnotify events.
> 

So is this a new userspace-visible feature?

>
> ...
>
> +static atomic_t fsnotify_sync_cookie = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> +
> +u32 fsnotify_get_cookie(void)
> +{
> +	return atomic_inc_return(&fsnotify_sync_cookie);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fsnotify_get_cookie);

Please make a poilcy of documenting the global symbols.  Especially the
exported-to-modules symbols.  At least.

>
> ...
>


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-27 20:05 [PATCH -V2 01/13] mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock Eric Paris
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 02/13] fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:05   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-08  0:37     ` Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 03/13] fsnotify: add group priorities Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 04/13] fsnotify: add in inode fsnotify markings Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 05/13] fsnotify: parent event notification Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 06/13] dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 07/13] fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 08/13] fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible Eric Paris
2009-03-27 20:05 ` [PATCH -V2 09/13] fsnotify: add correlations between events Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-27 20:06 ` [PATCH -V2 10/13] fsnotify: allow groups to add private data to events Eric Paris
2009-03-27 20:06 ` [PATCH -V2 11/13] fsnotify: fsnotify marks on inodes pin them in core Eric Paris
2009-03-27 20:06 ` [PATCH -V2 12/13] fsnotify: handle filesystem unmounts with fsnotify marks Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-27 20:06 ` [PATCH -V2 13/13] inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2009-04-07 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-07 23:06 ` [PATCH -V2 01/13] mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock Andrew Morton
2009-04-28 20:08   ` Andrew Morton

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