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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-06-10 23:13:09 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-07-14 14:34:32 +0200
commit00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b (patch)
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parentfs/namei.c: don't pass namedata to lookup_dcache() (diff)
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stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -434,5 +434,5 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
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[mandatory]
- The witch is dead! Well, 1/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() does *not*
-take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.
+ The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and
+->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.