From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] vfs: extend passing of nameidata to most vfs helpers Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:48:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20080305174856.GA3979@lst.de> References: <1204716581.10960.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig To: Matt Helsley Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:42651 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751261AbYCER7n (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:59:43 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1204716581.10960.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:29:41AM -0800, Matt Helsley wrote: > Make the core vfs helpers more orthogonal by passing nameidata structs into all of them > (not just vfs_create) NACK, there's no reason to pass them at all.