From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stop using uio in the readlink code
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:55:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070801125554.GA27199@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070801054142.GT31489@sgi.com>
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:41:42PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Do we really need to copy this code? I guess it doesn't really
> matter that much but it would be nice not to have to copy an
> exported vfs function just because we don't have a dentry...
I was wondering whether to send a patch to fix and export the VFS
function afterwards, but I really don't want a an xfs patch like
this to have a VFS change depency to start with. Especially as I
want to change the name of the helper in namei.c aswell - the vfs_
prefix is completely wrong.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-01 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-29 21:13 [PATCH] stop using uio in the readlink code Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-01 5:41 ` David Chinner
2007-08-01 12:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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