Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:23:39 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [VFS-EXPORTS] Why generic_forget_inode() is not exported? |
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On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:31:19PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about EXPORTS in VEFS: > if sb->drop_inode method is set, than it's called in iput_final(). > But it's impossible to call neither generic_drop_inode(), nor > generic_forget_inode() inside this handler. Only generic_delete_inode() > is accessiable. > > why generic_delete_inode() is exported and generic_forget_inode() is not? > It looks like it should. At least, from VFS interface point of view.
Because a) there's no intree user and b) people haven't explained why they need it.
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