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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:51:18 -0600
To: Paul Menage <pmenage@ensim.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Push BKL into ->permission() calls
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On Jun 18, 2002  00:27 -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> This patch (against 2.5.22) removes the BKL from around the call 
> to i_op->permission() in fs/namei.c, and pushes the BKL into those 
> filesystems that have permission() methods that require it:
>
> Out-of-tree filesystems that have their own permission() method will 
> need updating if they're relying on the BKL.

Please update Documentation/filesystems/porting with this info as part
of your patch.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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