[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/afs/super.c b/fs/afs/super.c
index d6fa8e5999d..53c56e7231a 100644
--- a/fs/afs/super.c
+++ b/fs/afs/super.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static struct super_block *afs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
 	sb->s_flags = flags;
 
-	ret = afs_fill_super(sb, &params, flags & MS_VERBOSE ? 1 : 0);
+	ret = afs_fill_super(sb, &params, flags & MS_SILENT ? 1 : 0);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		up_write(&sb->s_umount);
 		deactivate_super(sb);