[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 9b34a1b..65e6df2 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -103,7 +103,9 @@
#define MS_BIND 4096
#define MS_MOVE 8192
#define MS_REC 16384
-#define MS_VERBOSE 32768
+#define MS_VERBOSE 32768 /* War is peace. Verbosity is silence.
+ MS_VERBOSE is deprecated. */
+#define MS_SILENT 32768
#define MS_POSIXACL (1<<16) /* VFS does not apply the umask */
#define MS_UNBINDABLE (1<<17) /* change to unbindable */
#define MS_PRIVATE (1<<18) /* change to private */