Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:05:13 -0500 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFS2 Filesystem [9/16]
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Steven Whitehouse wrote:


> +/**
> + * gfs2_ea_name2type - get the type of the ea, and truncate type from the name
> + * @namep: ea name, possibly with type appended
> + *
> + * Returns: GFS2_EATYPE_XXX
> + */
> +
> +unsigned int gfs2_ea_name2type(const char *name, char **truncated_name)
> +{
> +	unsigned int type;
> +
> +	if (strncmp(name, "system.", 7) == 0) {
> +		type = GFS2_EATYPE_SYS;
> +		if (truncated_name)
> +			*truncated_name = strchr(name, '.') + 1;
> +	} else if (strncmp(name, "user.", 5) == 0) {
> +		type = GFS2_EATYPE_USR;
> +		if (truncated_name)
> +			*truncated_name = strchr(name, '.') + 1;
> +	} else {
> +		type = GFS2_EATYPE_UNUSED;
> +		if (truncated_name)
> +			*truncated_name = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return type;
> +}


Consider using the generic xattr infrastructure in the kernel (xattr.c), 
e.g. generic_getxattr() and friends.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
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