BTW, I realize that right now you are relying on -EOPENSTALE never coming out of ->atomic_open(), but that needs to be documented. For now I'm adding BUG_ON() there as a crude way of documenting it; AFAICS, there's no point whatsoever doing retries in that case. -- 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