Re: [PATCH 04/27] kill filp_open()

Andrew Morton
2008-01-16T08:53:22Z

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:08:31 -0700 Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Replace all callers with open_namei() directly, and move the
> nameidata stack allocation into open_namei().

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-loop.patch
is using filp_open() and hence doesn't work very well.

A shall revert dm-loop.patch and run away.