On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:45:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Let's not overdesign things. Just do something like the attached > patch, which is the obvious and straightforward thing to do. > > Overdesigning is a disease. It's fundamentally wrong. > > (Yeah, yeah,. the patch is untested, and doesn't actually _fill_ the > new f_flags value, but that's left as a trivial exercise for the > reader.) At least one of the readers posted a patch filling it in already. Need to send out the version with the review comments addressed, but I'm still waiting for Uli if he really insists on new syscall vectors for the same structure. Using that one ST_VALID bit seems a lot easier to me. -- 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