Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd()

[Roland Dreier]

 > No, the best interface is one where the driver doesn't even see
 > inode or file.  Of course that's not actually possible in a few
 > nasty cases like the infiniband code, and for those it might be
 > better to do the fd_isntall themselves.

Yeah, I've been thinking about this some more, and I think the IB case
can be cleaned up to use the current anonfd interface (and in fact
ignore the file pointer and inode it gets back).

I'll try to write a patch this week.

 - R.

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