Re: [PATCH 00/18] Introduce automount support in the VFS [ver #4]

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Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > As the result, we stop abusing do_add_mount() in there.  Moreover, with
> > pending mnt_devname nfs rework we will be able to get rid of passing
> > vfsmount to ->d_automount(), AFAICT, which would be nice...
> 
> BTW, what do you need vfsmount for in case of the only ->d_manage() instance
> you've got?

I'm not sure it's strictly necessary.  However, is it or will it be possible
for autofs to have per-namespace daemons?  I suspect I can probably downgrade
the path pointer to a dentry pointer.  It can always be upgraded later if we
find a need for it...

David
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