Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:43:39PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that
> > convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals
> > with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant
> > which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't
> > look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper.
> 
> Huh?  You do have dentries, for crying out loud...

Oww...  You are using it for idiotify and the rest of that pile of
garbage?  What a mess...
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