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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08 of 23] isofs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to
 use f_path
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:13:15 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Josef Jeff Sipek wrote:

> +	struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;

It seems clumsy to pepper the kernel code with the above.

What about something like:

static inline struct inode *fpath_ino(struct file *file)
{
	return file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
}



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James Morris
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