From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/26] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:52:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20070623095220.76dba6bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070622200303.82D9CC3A@kernel> <20070622200308.A4245108@kernel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, haveblue@us.ibm.com To: Dave Hansen Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49229 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761123AbXFWQx2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:53:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070622200308.A4245108@kernel> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:03:08 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > Christoph H. says this stands on its own and can go in before the > rest of the r/o bind mount set. > > --- > > Some filesystems forego the vfs and may_open() and create their > own 'struct file's. > > This patch creates a couple of helper functions which can be > used by these filesystems, and will provide a unified place > which the r/o bind mount code may patch. > > Also, rename two existing, static-scope init_file() to less > generic names. the sysfs changes are no longer applicable here due to pending changes in Greg's tree. The net/socket.c change is a mystery. My version of sock_attach_fd() doesn't look like yours. So I snarfed the first three patches, passed on this one and shall await a quality review-and-ack from someone who is appropriately familiar with this code, thanks.