The patch titled xfs: remove dir check in xfs_link has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is xfs-remove-dir-check-in-xfs_link.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: xfs: remove dir check in xfs_link From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> link(2) on directory is banned in VFS. Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c~xfs-remove-dir-check-in-xfs_link fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c~xfs-remove-dir-check-in-xfs_link +++ a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c @@ -2607,8 +2607,6 @@ xfs_link( vn_trace_entry(src_vp, __FUNCTION__, (inst_t *)__return_address); target_namelen = VNAMELEN(dentry); - if (VN_ISDIR(src_vp)) - return XFS_ERROR(EPERM); sip = xfs_vtoi(src_vp); tdp = XFS_BHVTOI(target_dir_bdp); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are git-acpi.patch git-block.patch git-ieee1394.patch git-libata-all.patch git-mtd.patch git-netdev-all.patch git-net.patch git-nfs.patch xfs-remove-dir-check-in-xfs_link.patch x86-dont-trigger-full-rebuild-via-config_mtrr.patch dont-trigger-full-rebuild-via-config_x86_mce.patch remove-config_parport_arc-drivers-parport-parport_arcc.patch two-additions-to-linux-documentation-ioctl-numbertxt.patch more-bug_on-conversion.patch emu10k1-mark-midi_spinlock-as-used.patch nbd-endian-annotations.patch documentation-ioctl-messtxt-start-tree-wide-ioctl-registry.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html