Commit 9b04c997b1120feefa1e6ee8e2902270bc055cd2
Committed by
Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] vfs: MS_VERBOSE should be MS_SILENT
The meaning of MS_VERBOSE is backwards; if the bit is set, it really means,
"don't be verbose". This is confusing and counter-intuitive.
In addition, there is also no way to set the MS_VERBOSE flag in the
mount(8) program in util-linux, but interesting, it does define options
which would do the right thing if MS_SILENT were defined, which
unfortunately we do not:
#ifdef MS_SILENT
{ "quiet", 0, 0, MS_SILENT }, /* be quiet */
{ "loud", 0, 1, MS_SILENT }, /* print out messages. */
#endif
So the obvious fix is to deprecate the use of MS_VERBOSE and replace it
with MS_SILENT.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Showing 7 changed files with 13 additions and 11 deletions Side-by-side Diff
fs/afs/super.c
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
| ... | ... | @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ |
| 479 | 479 | |
| 480 | 480 | sb->s_flags = flags; |
| 481 | 481 | |
| 482 | - rc = cifs_read_super(sb, data, dev_name, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0); | |
| 482 | + rc = cifs_read_super(sb, data, dev_name, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 483 | 483 | if (rc) { |
| 484 | 484 | up_write(&sb->s_umount); |
| 485 | 485 | deactivate_super(sb); |
fs/jffs2/super.c
| ... | ... | @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ |
| 152 | 152 | sb->s_op = &jffs2_super_operations; |
| 153 | 153 | sb->s_flags = flags | MS_NOATIME; |
| 154 | 154 | |
| 155 | - ret = jffs2_do_fill_super(sb, data, (flags&MS_VERBOSE)?1:0); | |
| 155 | + ret = jffs2_do_fill_super(sb, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 156 | 156 | |
| 157 | 157 | if (ret) { |
| 158 | 158 | /* Failure case... */ |
| ... | ... | @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ |
| 257 | 257 | } |
| 258 | 258 | |
| 259 | 259 | if (imajor(nd.dentry->d_inode) != MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR) { |
| 260 | - if (!(flags & MS_VERBOSE)) /* Yes I mean this. Strangely */ | |
| 260 | + if (!(flags & MS_SILENT)) | |
| 261 | 261 | printk(KERN_NOTICE "Attempt to mount non-MTD device \"%s\" as JFFS2\n", |
| 262 | 262 | dev_name); |
| 263 | 263 | goto out; |
fs/nfs/inode.c
| ... | ... | @@ -1679,7 +1679,7 @@ |
| 1679 | 1679 | |
| 1680 | 1680 | s->s_flags = flags; |
| 1681 | 1681 | |
| 1682 | - error = nfs_fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0); | |
| 1682 | + error = nfs_fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 1683 | 1683 | if (error) { |
| 1684 | 1684 | up_write(&s->s_umount); |
| 1685 | 1685 | deactivate_super(s); |
| ... | ... | @@ -1996,7 +1996,7 @@ |
| 1996 | 1996 | |
| 1997 | 1997 | s->s_flags = flags; |
| 1998 | 1998 | |
| 1999 | - error = nfs4_fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0); | |
| 1999 | + error = nfs4_fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 2000 | 2000 | if (error) { |
| 2001 | 2001 | up_write(&s->s_umount); |
| 2002 | 2002 | deactivate_super(s); |
fs/super.c
| ... | ... | @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ |
| 712 | 712 | s->s_flags = flags; |
| 713 | 713 | strlcpy(s->s_id, bdevname(bdev, b), sizeof(s->s_id)); |
| 714 | 714 | sb_set_blocksize(s, block_size(bdev)); |
| 715 | - error = fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0); | |
| 715 | + error = fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 716 | 716 | if (error) { |
| 717 | 717 | up_write(&s->s_umount); |
| 718 | 718 | deactivate_super(s); |
| ... | ... | @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ |
| 756 | 756 | |
| 757 | 757 | s->s_flags = flags; |
| 758 | 758 | |
| 759 | - error = fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0); | |
| 759 | + error = fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 760 | 760 | if (error) { |
| 761 | 761 | up_write(&s->s_umount); |
| 762 | 762 | deactivate_super(s); |
| ... | ... | @@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ |
| 785 | 785 | return s; |
| 786 | 786 | if (!s->s_root) { |
| 787 | 787 | s->s_flags = flags; |
| 788 | - error = fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0); | |
| 788 | + error = fill_super(s, data, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0); | |
| 789 | 789 | if (error) { |
| 790 | 790 | up_write(&s->s_umount); |
| 791 | 791 | deactivate_super(s); |
include/linux/fs.h
| ... | ... | @@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ |
| 103 | 103 | #define MS_BIND 4096 |
| 104 | 104 | #define MS_MOVE 8192 |
| 105 | 105 | #define MS_REC 16384 |
| 106 | -#define MS_VERBOSE 32768 | |
| 106 | +#define MS_VERBOSE 32768 /* War is peace. Verbosity is silence. | |
| 107 | + MS_VERBOSE is deprecated. */ | |
| 108 | +#define MS_SILENT 32768 | |
| 107 | 109 | #define MS_POSIXACL (1<<16) /* VFS does not apply the umask */ |
| 108 | 110 | #define MS_UNBINDABLE (1<<17) /* change to unbindable */ |
| 109 | 111 | #define MS_PRIVATE (1<<18) /* change to private */ |
init/do_mounts.c
| ... | ... | @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ |
| 19 | 19 | |
| 20 | 20 | int __initdata rd_doload; /* 1 = load RAM disk, 0 = don't load */ |
| 21 | 21 | |
| 22 | -int root_mountflags = MS_RDONLY | MS_VERBOSE; | |
| 22 | +int root_mountflags = MS_RDONLY | MS_SILENT; | |
| 23 | 23 | char * __initdata root_device_name; |
| 24 | 24 | static char __initdata saved_root_name[64]; |
| 25 | 25 |