Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 15:43:49 EST


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Yep, you win the prize, it is MVFS.
>
> This is the usual port of an existing body of code to the Linux kernel.
> It is not asking for a new export, only restoration of a previously existing
> export.

Sorry, but "our code is badly misdesigned" does not make a valid excuse
when you have been told, repeatedly, by many people, for at least a year
that you needed to sanitize your design.

Request denied. And no, it never had been intended to be exported
or, indeed, used by filesystems.
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