Re: [PATCH] make lookup_create non-static

[jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:57:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) wrote:
> >
> > You mean copy lookup_create into hwgfs (which is already in the tree,
> >  btw)?  Yeah, I guess I could do that if you don't want to take this.
> 
> ah, I thought you were referring to an out-of-tree filesystem.
> 
> It would appear that intermezzo has already created a private copy of
> lookup_create().  Sigh.
> 
> If we're going to export this thing to filesystems then it really should be
> documented a bit.  You could bribe me with a patch which does that ;)

Ok, how does this look?

Jesse


===== fs/namei.c 1.81 vs edited =====
--- 1.81/fs/namei.c	Thu Jul 10 22:23:45 2003
+++ edited/fs/namei.c	Mon Aug  4 15:28:38 2003
@@ -1375,8 +1375,15 @@
 	goto do_last;
 }
 
-/* SMP-safe */
-static struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir)
+/**
+ * lookup_create - lookup a dentry, creating it if it doesn't exist
+ * @nd: nameidata info
+ * @is_dir: directory flag
+ *
+ * Simple function to lookup and return a dentry and create it
+ * if it doesn't exist.  Is SMP-safe.
+ */
+struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir)
 {
 	struct dentry *dentry;