From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] direct-IO API change
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:25:45 -0700 (PDT)
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Chuck Lever wrote:
>
> this patch adds a "struct file *" argument to direct I/O.  this is needed
> by NFS direct I/O to make the file's credentials available to direct I/O
> subroutines.  we can't remove "struct inode *" yet because the raw driver
> still needs it.

Why isn't the raw driver changed to just use file->f_dentry->d_inode
instead?

		Linus