Re: [NFS] [PATH 04/19] ext2: new export ops

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:58:03AM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> These patches look good, and cleanup in this area is certainly a
> good thing.  One small comment: the easy filesystems (ext[234], efs,
> ntfs) might be cleaner if the per-fs get_inode function were a member
> of export_ops instead of an extra argument to generic_fh_to_dentry().
> That way you wouldn't need these two little helper functions in each
> filesystem, because you could point export_ops.fh_to_dentry directly
> at generic_fh_to_dentry.

I was pondering this, but in the end I prefer the cleaner layering of
the callback version.  This also mirrors what we do in other areas
(e.g. address_space operations)