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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - use lookup access intent to support recursive bind mounts
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:53:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209369220.3243.18.camel@raven.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209367536.3243.16.camel@raven.themaw.net>


On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 15:25 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > ->lookup() and friends are going to stop getting struct nameidata *.
> > ->follow_link() obviously will keep it; ->d_revalidate() should
> > lose the sucker, but we might have to split it in two methods (which
> > is probably what'll be needed in your case).
> 
> Right.

Would it be sensible to use dentry->d_flags for this purpose?
Ian



      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28  6:14 [PATCH] autofs4 - use lookup access intent to support recursive bind mounts Ian Kent
2008-04-28  6:22 ` Al Viro
2008-04-28  6:38   ` Ian Kent
2008-04-28  7:05     ` Al Viro
2008-04-28  7:25       ` Ian Kent
2008-04-28  7:53         ` Ian Kent [this message]

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