Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262494AbUKQTNz (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:13:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262476AbUKQTNP (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:13:15 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:27143 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262460AbUKQTI5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:08:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:08:50 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Robert Love Cc: ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced Message-ID: <20041117190850.GA11682@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Robert Love , ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1100710677.6280.2.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <1100714560.6280.7.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1100714560.6280.7.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 14 On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:02:40PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > John, > > In 2.6.10-rc, vfs_permission() was replaced by generic_permission(), > which also has a slightly changed behavior and argument list. And using either of them was/is totally bogus. It's a helper for filesystems, not a general API. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/