Re: struct_cpy() and kAFS (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1)

[Andrew Morton]

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > David Howells:
>  >   o kAFS automount support
> 
>  After this change, all archs need to provide struct_cpy() to make AFS compile,
>  while currently only ia32 and amd64 provide it.

Seems a strange thing to do.  Why not rely on the type system?

diff -puN fs/afs/mntpt.c~kafs-struct_cpy fs/afs/mntpt.c
--- 25/fs/afs/mntpt.c~kafs-struct_cpy	2004-07-12 11:08:39.125941824 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/afs/mntpt.c	2004-07-12 11:08:55.972380776 -0700
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static int afs_mntpt_follow_link(struct 
 	if (IS_ERR(newmnt))
 		return PTR_ERR(newmnt);
 
-	struct_cpy(&newnd, nd);
+	newnd = *nd;
 	newnd.dentry = dentry;
 	err = do_add_mount(newmnt, &newnd, 0, &afs_vfsmounts);
 
diff -puN fs/afs/vlocation.c~kafs-struct_cpy fs/afs/vlocation.c
--- 25/fs/afs/vlocation.c~kafs-struct_cpy	2004-07-12 11:08:39.141939392 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/afs/vlocation.c	2004-07-12 11:09:31.815931728 -0700
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static cachefs_match_val_t afs_vlocation
 		if (!vlocation->valid ||
 		    vlocation->vldb.rtime == vldb->rtime
 		    ) {
-			struct_cpy(&vlocation->vldb, vldb);
+			vlocation->vldb = *vldb;
 			vlocation->valid = 1;
 			_leave(" = SUCCESS [c->m]");
 			return CACHEFS_MATCH_SUCCESS;
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static void afs_vlocation_cache_update(v
 
 	_enter("");
 
-	struct_cpy(vldb,&vlocation->vldb);
+	*vldb = vlocation->vldb;
 
 } /* end afs_vlocation_cache_update() */
 #endif
_

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