On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:53:22AM -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: > Starting to read these patches .. I see these new APIs are placed in > lockd directory. Was there any discussion before to make these generic > vfs layer functions ? I'm just curious. Yeah--see the introductory email. The new stuff is used only by lockd and nfsd, and there was an understandable desire not to touch the common locking code, but I agree that it'd be more elegant to share a common lock method. So that's probably what we'll do next time around.... --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html