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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:08:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041117190850.GA11682@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100714560.6280.7.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com>

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:02:40PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> John,
> 
> In 2.6.10-rc, vfs_permission() was replaced by generic_permission(),
> which also has a slightly changed behavior and argument list.

And using either of them was/is totally bogus.  It's a helper for filesystems,
not a general API.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-17 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-17 16:57 [patch] inotify: make our sysfs files show up Robert Love
2004-11-17 18:02 ` [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced Robert Love
2004-11-17 19:08   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-11-17 19:10     ` Robert Love
2004-11-17 19:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-17 19:17         ` Robert Love
2004-11-17 20:09           ` Mike Waychison
2004-11-17 20:17             ` [patch] inotify: use permission not vfs_permission Robert Love
2004-11-17 20:25               ` Mike Waychison
2004-11-17 20:28                 ` Robert Love
2004-11-18  0:59                   ` John McCutchan
2004-11-17 20:19           ` [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced Al Viro
2004-11-17 20:10   ` [patch] inotify: add sysfs store support Robert Love
2004-11-18  1:00     ` John McCutchan
2004-11-18  1:24       ` Robert Love
2004-11-18 19:05 ` [patch] inotify: grab right lock Robert Love

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