FYI. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)osdl.org&gt; To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin(a)yahoo.com.au&gt; Cc: holt(a)sgi.com, john(a)johnmccutchan.com, linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org, rml(a)novell.com, hch(a)lst.de, linux-fsdevel(a)vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro(a)ftp.linux.org.uk&gt; Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:48:12 -0800 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin(a)yahoo.com.au&gt; wrote: A problem is that the audit tree (believe it or not) adds a pile of new inotify functionality. I don't know what those changes do and they might conflict with the changes you've made (apart from giving us two copies of inotify_inode_watched()) and the audit changes were apparently only socialised on the linux-audit mailing list and my twice-sent patch to make the audit tree compile has been ignored for a couple of weeks. So I'm going to bitbucket the audit tree until a) it compiles and b) its inotify changes have been explained and reviewed and c) we've reviewed those changes against your optimisations. I think fixes will be needed.