Re: [PATCH 2/6] vfs: make i_op->permission take a dentry instead of an inode

[Aneesh Kumar K. V]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:41:18 +0200, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Like most other inode operations ->permission() should take a dentry
> instead of an inode.  This is necessary for filesystems which operate
> on names not on inodes.
> 

This change will also help 9P patch series i am doing 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1032788

Currently ACL values are fetched from the server as a part of inode
initialization. We can't do it in inode operations->permission because
we need dentry to do 9P operations. Having inode operations->permission
take a dentry instead of an inode help there.

-aneesh

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