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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Cc: sgi.bugs.xfs@engr.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TAKE 981875 - xfs_dm_rdwr() needs to pass a vfsmount to dentry_open()
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 01:10:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516051048.GB5035@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080516045732.F12DC58C4C29@chook.melbourne.sgi.com>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:57:32PM +1000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> xfs_dm_rdwr() needs to pass a vfsmount to dentry_open()
> 
> We need a vfsmount pointer in xfs_dm_rdwr() but we are not
> provided with one and there's no way to get to it.  So add
> a m_vfsmount field to the xfs_mount structure and set it
> up at mount time.  We can then access it through the xfs
> inode.

Stong NACK for this crap, and double NACK for pushing this towards
mainline.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-16  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-16  4:57 TAKE 981875 - xfs_dm_rdwr() needs to pass a vfsmount to dentry_open() Lachlan McIlroy
2008-05-16  5:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-20  6:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-26  6:02     ` Niv Sardi
2008-07-26 16:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-28  6:11       ` Niv Sardi

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