From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757276AbXD0VFu (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:05:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757302AbXD0VFs (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:05:48 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:50997 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757294AbXD0VF1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:05:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:04:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@openvz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] v4: merged utimensat implementation Message-Id: <20070427140450.3938183c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200704271523.l3RFNwGN031209@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <200704271523.l3RFNwGN031209@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:23:58 -0400 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > I took Alexey's lutimes patches and merged it with the utimensat patch. > Fortunately Alexey already did most of the work, the conversion to > timespec. I just changed the name of the syscall, made the flag part > of the syscall parameters, and did away with the old do_utimes definition > (the new do_utimes takes a timespec and a flag now). All five patches > patches are rolled into one. > > Note, at userlevel I don't intend to expose the flags parameter. We'll > have separate utimensat and lutimensat interfaces. But there is no > reason to duplicate all that code in the kernel. Could we please have a signoff for this work from Alexey and a changelog for the commit? I could grab the description from the initial utimensat email, but I guess it needs updating now.