Re: [NFS] [PATCH 1/10] lockd: add new export operation for nfsv4/lockd locking

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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.
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