Re: [RFC][PATCH] make reiserfs stop using 'struct file' for internal xattr operations

Andrew Morton
2007-09-27T21:55:27Z

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:51:25 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > Plus, reiserfs seems to compile with that patch I just sent. Sure as
> > heck surprised me.
> >
>
> That'll be because reiserfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch witched reiserfs over
> to ->write_begin() and ->write_end().

Actually, we should rename reiserfs_prepare_write and reiserfs_commit_write
to something else to reduce confusion. Probably lots of other filesystems
would benefit from the same change, post-Nick's-stuff.