Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:03:19 -0400 | From | Josef Sipek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01 of 23] VFS: change struct file to use struct path |
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:47:36PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote: > hoi :) > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:28:07AM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote: > > > why? > > > > It's little cleaner than having two pointers. In general, there is a number > > of users of dentry-vfsmount pairs in the kernel, and struct path nicely > > wraps it. > > Sure, but you can split the patch up: > > First, change struct file and introduce the #defines so that everything > still works as before.
That's what 01 does (along with fs/*.[ch] changes).
Josef "Jeff" Sipek.
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