From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] VFS: Export dquot_send_warning
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:29:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090926162951.GA12397@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253708720.6052.289.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It would be useful to have a generic method of sending quota messages
> to userspace. The dquot code has such a method, but it can only currently
> be used by that code, so I'm wondering whether there would be any objections
> to exporting it so that other (non-dquot) filesystems could use it?
>
> My proposed (first draft) patch is below,
If you want to use it without the "generic" quotas it needs to move
from dquota.c to quota.c. And of course a user in the patch series
makes the likelyhood of getting this included muc higher :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-26 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-23 12:25 Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-26 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-09-28 7:26 ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-28 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-28 13:15 ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-28 13:43 ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-28 13:45 ` Steven Whitehouse
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