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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:54:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for
 superblock creation [ver #9]
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:44 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Separating type name from everything else makes a lot of sense

I do not dispute that at all.

But you can specify the type name in the "commit" phase, it doesn't
have to be at "fsopen" time.

In fact, doing so would _force_ a certain cleanliness to the
interfaces - it would force the rest to be filesystem-agnostic, rather
than possibly have semantic hacks for some part.

            Linus