Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751641AbYAPIxW (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:53:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751368AbYAPIwx (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:52:53 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59437 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbYAPIwv (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:52:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:52:00 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, hch@infradead.org, Bryn Reeves , Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] kill filp_open() Message-Id: <20080116005200.0165dc67.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071101230831.904FDE9A@kernel> References: <20071101230826.9A4F6E00@kernel> <20071101230831.904FDE9A@kernel> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 14 On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:08:31 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > Replace all callers with open_namei() directly, and move the > nameidata stack allocation into open_namei(). ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-loop.patch is using filp_open() and hence doesn't work very well. A shall revert dm-loop.patch and run away. -- 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/