Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - use lookup access intent to supportrecursive bind mounts

From: Ian Kent
Date: Mon Apr 28 2008 - 03:54:41 EST



On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 15:25 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > ->lookup() and friends are going to stop getting struct nameidata *.
> > ->follow_link() obviously will keep it; ->d_revalidate() should
> > lose the sucker, but we might have to split it in two methods (which
> > is probably what'll be needed in your case).
>
> Right.

Would it be sensible to use dentry->d_flags for this purpose?
Ian


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