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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu,
hch@infradead.org, Bryn Reeves <breeves@redhat.com>,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] kill filp_open()
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:10:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080116171032.GA24300@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200503096.22674.171.camel@localhost>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:04:56AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > is using filp_open() and hence doesn't work very well.
> >
> > A shall revert dm-loop.patch and run away.
>
> This one's pretty easy, thank goodness. Just replace filp_open() with
> open_namei():
>
> /filp_open(/open_namei(AT_FDCWD, /
But ultimatively I think we should remove this silly renaming from
the patch. It doesn't help the goal and just created churn, so please
rename open_namei back to do_filp_open for now and put filp_open back.
> BTW, why do we need this on top of the existing loopback driver? Can
> they really share no code?
Yeah, given how much pain loop drivers in general are I don't think it's
a good idea to add a second one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 23:08 [PATCH 00/27] Read-only bind mounts (-mm resend) Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 01/27] do namei_flags calculation inside open_namei() Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 02/27] make open_namei() return a filp Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 03/27] kill do_filp_open() Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 04/27] kill filp_open() Dave Hansen
2008-01-16 8:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-16 17:04 ` Dave Hansen
2008-01-16 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-16 17:41 ` Dave Hansen
2008-01-16 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-16 17:12 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 05/27] rename open_namei() to open_pathname() Dave Hansen
2007-11-26 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 06/27] r-o-bind-mounts-stub-functions Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 07/27] r-o-bind-mounts-do_rmdir-elevate-write-count Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 08/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-callers-of-vfs_mkdir Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 09/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 10/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mount-count-for-extended-attributes Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 11/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-during-entire-ncp_ioctl Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 12/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_sys_utime-and-touch_atime Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 13/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 14/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-file_update_time Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 15/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-link-and-symlink-calls Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 16/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-some-ioctls Dave Hansen
2007-11-05 23:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-06 9:01 ` Jan Kara
2007-11-06 9:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 17/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-opend-files Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 18/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-over-calls-to-vfs_rename Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 19/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 20/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-do_sys_truncate Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 21/27] r-o-bind-mounts-make-access-use-mnt-check Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 22/27] r-o-bind-mounts-nfs-check-mnt-instead-of-superblock-directly Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 23/27] r-o-bind-mounts-sys_mknodat-elevate-write-count-for-vfs_mknod-create Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 24/27] r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:09 ` [PATCH 25/27] r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers-make-lockdep-happy-with-r-o-bind-mounts Dave Hansen
2007-11-05 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-01 23:09 ` [PATCH 26/27] r-o-bind-mounts-honor-r-w-changes-at-do_remount-time Dave Hansen
2007-11-01 23:09 ` [PATCH 27/27] keep track of mnt_writer state of struct file Dave Hansen
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