On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 12:23 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Before we get started: You promised yo get rid of the dnotify and > inotify fields in the inode when moving over those two to fsnotify. > While the dnotify fields are gone the inotify_watches and inotify_mutex > fields are still around. I'd really like to see this done before we > move on. In linux-next you will find that those fields are completely unused and the kernel can be compiled without them with 0 lose of functionality (they are still used in linus's kernel by the audit system) The only reason I didn't remove them entirely is because the inotify kernel interface is EXPORT_SYMBOL. I plan to leave it around for a little bit until I'm sure out of tree users don't exist or at least had enough time to realize they need to use fsnotify. For all situations I know of at least, those 2 fields can be safely compiled out. (aka !CONFIG_INOTIFY) -Eric -- 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
