[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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