Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> And where did this one go? >> >> The other one I removed sets opts->new_root to NULL, and this one detects >> the NULL ptr: >> >> if (!opts->subsys_bits && !opts->none) >> return NULL; >> ... >> opts->new_root = NULL; >> ... >> if (!opts->new_root) >> return -EINVAL; >> >> shortcut to: >> >> if (!opts->subsys_bits && !opts->none) >> return -EINVAL; > > Thanks for the explanation. Maybe explaining it briefly in the commit > message would be nice? > I recalled why we have this check in this place, that is to allow mounting by hierarchy name, but it has been broken for a long time. I'll send a fix with detailed changelog. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html