From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751430AbVKIP7e (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:59:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751440AbVKIP7e (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:59:34 -0500 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:42819 "EHLO emea1-mh.id2.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbVKIP7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:59:33 -0500 Message-Id: <43722B2E.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0 Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:00:30 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Al Viro" Cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/39] NLKD - early pseudo-fs References: <43720F5E.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43720F95.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43720FBA.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43720FF6.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721024.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <4372105B.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721119.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721142.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051109142926.GU7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <4372179E.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051109150057.GX7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20051109150057.GX7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Al Viro 09.11.05 16:00:57 >>> >On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:37:02PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >What the hell for? We _already_ have a way to get any set of files >> in >> >a filesystem as soon as we have VFS caches set up (and until then you >> >can't open anything anyway). >> >> That's the whole point - a debugger wants this *before* VFS is set up >> (and thus obviously without going through VFS in the first place). One >> may argue that the naming is odd, but that's nothing I really care >> about. >> >> >NAK. >> >> Then suggest an alternative solution. > >"Reduce the parts of your config needed that early on to something >saner in size" That is no solution. Take a look at what can be configured in NLKD, and tell me what you'd call a 'saner in size' subset. I can't think of anything that can be left out; instead, the amount of configurable things will only grow over time. Jan