Re: [PATCH] Push BKL into ->permission() calls

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 02:51:18 EST

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On Jun 18, 2002 00:27 -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> This patch (against 2.5.22) removes the BKL from around the call
> to i_op->permission() in fs/namei.c, and pushes the BKL into those
> filesystems that have permission() methods that require it:
>
> Out-of-tree filesystems that have their own permission() method will
> need updating if they're relying on the BKL.

Please update Documentation/filesystems/porting with this info as part
of your patch.

Cheers, Andreas

-- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/

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