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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015194434.GC24892@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f29a09483e848f5f6f3526623.ps@mail.parknet.co.jp>

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:58:11PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 
> lookup_hash() with LOOKUP_PARENT is bogus. And this prepares to add
> new intent on those path.
> 
> The user of LOOKUP_PARENT intent is nfs only, and it checks whether
> nd->flags has LOOKUP_CREATE or LOOKUP_OPEN, so the result is same.

Makes sense to me, but in this area you really need to work against
Al's vfs.git tree as there's quite some work going on.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 13:58 [PATCH 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT() OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 13:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor() OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 13:58   ` [PATCH 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 13:58     ` [PATCH 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate() OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 13:58       ` [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 13:58         ` [PATCH 6/6] vfs: add LOOKUP_RENAME_NEW intent OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 19:37           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 20:13             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 19:44         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-10-15 21:43           ` [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 19:43       ` [PATCH 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate() Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 20:16         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 20:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 19:41     ` [PATCH 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 20:39       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 20:47         ` Trond Myklebust
2008-10-15 21:31           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 19:53   ` [PATCH 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor() Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 21:42     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-10-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT() Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 20:24   ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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