[PATCH 07/17] Make dentry::d_mounted into a more general field for special function dirs
Valerie Aurora
vaurora at redhat.com
Fri Oct 8 19:57:42 EDT 2010
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:15:31PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Make the d_mounted field in struct dentry into a more general field for special
> function directories such as mountpoints and autofs substructures.
>
> d_mounted is renamed d_managed, and that is split into three fields:
>
> (*) #define DMANAGED_MOUNTPOINT 0x0fffffff
No matter how hard I try, I always read this as "DAMAGED". Which I
can't help but imagine subliminally influences the reader's opinion of
the patches.
Of course I am excellent at naming things, see "chunkfs" and
"relatime". But some ideas for naming various concepts in this patch:
D_MIGHT_MOUNT
D_CHILL_OUT
D_ITS_COMPLICATED
-VAL
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