From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] vfs: make i_op->permission take a dentry instead of an inode Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:44:09 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20100903134116.039612691@szeredi.hu> <20100903134148.908403931@szeredi.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: vaurora@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk To: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100903134148.908403931@szeredi.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:41:18 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi > > Like most other inode operations ->permission() should take a dentry > instead of an inode. This is necessary for filesystems which operate > on names not on inodes. > This change will also help 9P patch series i am doing http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1032788 Currently ACL values are fetched from the server as a part of inode initialization. We can't do it in inode operations->permission because we need dentry to do 9P operations. Having inode operations->permission take a dentry instead of an inode help there. -aneesh