Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755770AbYJOToq (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752940AbYJOToh (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:37 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50121 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752899AbYJOToh (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:34 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup Message-ID: <20081015194434.GC24892@infradead.org> References: <7754d3f83e848f5f6f2326623.ps@mail.parknet.co.jp> <524881153e848f5f6f3426623.ps@mail.parknet.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 16 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:58:11PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > > lookup_hash() with LOOKUP_PARENT is bogus. And this prepares to add > new intent on those path. > > The user of LOOKUP_PARENT intent is nfs only, and it checks whether > nd->flags has LOOKUP_CREATE or LOOKUP_OPEN, so the result is same. Makes sense to me, but in this area you really need to work against Al's vfs.git tree as there's quite some work going on. -- 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/