"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:35 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> Cc'ing Eric since I seem to recall he suggested doing it this way? Yes. On second look setting fs->root won't work. We need to change fs. The problem is that by default all kernel threads share fs so changing fs->root will have non-local consequences. I very much believe we want if at all possible to perform a local modification. Changing fs isn't all that different from what devtmpfs is doing. >> Seems OK to me, but maybe that swap_root should be in common code? (Or >> maybe we could use set_fs_root()?) >> >> I'm assuming it's up to Trond to take this.--b. > > I'm reluctant to do that at this time since the original proposal was > precisely that of export set_fs_root() and using it around the AF_LOCAL > socket bind. That proposal was NACKed by Al Viro. > If Al is OK with the idea of us creating a private version of > set_fs_root, then I'd like to see an official Acked-by: that we can > append to this commit. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
