Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/28] elevate writer count for custom 'struct file'
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:31:25 -0700
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On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:42 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Please add a helper to create these files so all this happens in just
> one place.  There's a fare bit of code duplication already that this will
> cleanup.  Another nice cleanup you should push out first before doing
> the actual feature :) 

I'm looking at this bit now.  One thing that is a bit confusing is the
internal kernel distinction between a filp and a plain 'struct file'.

Do you have any ideas how you think these interfaces should look?

-- Dave

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