From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.210]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l71Ctpbm018177 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 05:55:55 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:55:54 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] stop using uio in the readlink code Message-ID: <20070801125554.GA27199@lst.de> References: <20070729211354.GB12824@lst.de> <20070801054142.GT31489@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070801054142.GT31489@sgi.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: David Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs@oss.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.