On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > > These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might > > cause a write to the filesystem. > > Argh, is there some reason why this couldn't have gotten merged in > -rc1, ahead of the rest of the patch series? This one is going to > cause more cross-tree merge pain with any filesystem tree that have > changes to fs/*/ioctl.c.
I wasn't meaning for this to hit the 2.6.25-rc series. We had some review comments just when the merge window opened, and I was expecting them to get stuck back in -mm for another round. -- Dave -- 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/
