[PATCH] allow strictatime to be set as a global default

[Raymond Jennings]

I'm aware of a little tiff regarding strictatime in the past, and I 
think I came up with a patch that might help everyone get what they 
want.  I'm already using it myself.

I've had some review on #kernelnewbies for technical issues, how does 
this look?

---

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 4b917eb..6ce72d8 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -4,17 +4,6 @@

 menu "File systems"

-config DEFAULT_STRICTATIME
-	bool "Use strictatime by default"
-	default n
-	help
-	  Use strictatime as a default mount option.
-
-	  Strictatime preserves ancient historic behavior of keeping the 
atime field always up to date.
-	  However, it was changed in 2007 to relatime to reduce I/O load on 
block devices.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
 # Use unaligned word dcache accesses
 config DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
        bool
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 48e7c15..0570729 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2680,15 +2680,9 @@ long do_mount(const char *dev_name, const char 
__user *dir_name,
 	if (retval)
 		goto dput_out;

-#ifdef CONFIG_DEFAULT_STRICTATIME
-	/* Default to strictatime unless overridden */
-	if (flags & MS_RELATIME)
-		mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
-#else
-	/* Default to relatime unless overridden */
+	/* Default to relatime unless overriden */
 	if (!(flags & MS_NOATIME))
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
-#endif

 	/* Separate the per-mountpoint flags */
 	if (flags & MS_NOSUID)