Re: fsstack: struct path

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 04:34:55 EST


On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:23:23 -0400
Josef Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Few weeks ago, I noticed that fs/namei.c defines struct path:
>
> struct path {
> struct vfsmount *mnt;
> struct dentry *dentry;
> };
>
> I think it would make sense to move it into include/linux/ as it is quite
> useful (and it would discourage the (ab)use of struct nameidata.)
>
> The fsstack code could benefit from it as the stackable fs dentries have to
> keep track of the lower dentry as well as the lower vfsmount.
>
> One, rather unfortunate, fact is that struct path is also defined in
> include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h as something completely different - reiserfs
> specific.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

reiserfs is being bad. s/path/reiserfs_path/g
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