On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:26:09 +0800 > Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Due to a change to fs/dcache.c:d_lookup() in the 2.6 kernel whereby only > > hashed dentrys are returned the negative caching of mount failures > > stopped working in the autofs4 module for nobrowse mount (ie. directory > > created at mount time and removed at umount or following a mount > > failure). > > > > This patch keeps track of the dentrys from mount fails in order to be > > able check the timeout since the last fail and return the appropriate > > status. In addition the timeout value is settable at load time as a > > module option and via sysfs using the module > > parameter /sys/module/autofs4/parameters/negative_timeout. > > Boy, that's a complex-looking patch. I think I'll sit on this one > for 2.6.24 ;)
Yes, that's fine .. the principle isn't that complex. > > It seems to use a lot of list_for_each[_safe] which could > have been coded as list_for_each_entry[_safe], btw. Mmm .. good point. I've not noticed the list_for_each_entry* macros. Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
