From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prime.zeng@huawei.com,
linuxarm@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: export vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat()
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:18:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201126071848.GA17990@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1606374948-38713-1-git-send-email-yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:15:48PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> The public function vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat() are
> unexported after moving out of line in
> commit 09f1bde4017e ("fs: move vfs_fstatat out of line"),
> which will prevent the using in kernel modules.
> So make them exported.
And why would you want to use them in kernel module? Please explain
that in the patch that exports them, and please send that patch in the
same series as the patches adding the users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-26 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-26 7:15 [PATCH] fs: export vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat() Yicong Yang
2020-11-26 7:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-11-26 9:08 ` Yicong Yang
2020-11-26 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-26 9:48 ` Yicong Yang
2020-11-26 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-26 10:44 ` Yicong Yang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20201126071848.GA17990@lst.de \
--to=hch@lst.de \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linuxarm@huawei.com \
--cc=prime.zeng@huawei.com \
--cc=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
--cc=yangyicong@hisilicon.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).