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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport get_fs_type
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:54:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421085428.GB17709@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421084758.GK26897@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:47:58AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the no longer used export of get_fs_type.

Again, patch is good but missing an explanation.  get_fs_type grabs a
reference to the file_system_type which needs to be dropped using
put_filesystem which is not exported, so it can't be used from modules
without introducing a bug.  Nor should it because it's an operation
that's only useful during mount VFS-level code.  The only really valid
user is fs/super.c


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  8:47 [2.6 patch] unexport get_fs_type Adrian Bunk
2008-04-21  8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-21  9:12   ` Al Viro
2008-04-21  9:07 ` Al Viro

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