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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2005-11-09 06:35:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-09 16:56:00 +0100 |
| commit | 49705b7743fd8f5632a95ec4c6547d169d27ac1f (patch) | |
| tree | b209b1f94bfcfee522c44d2abef1cdb196219a52 /Documentation | |
| parent | [PATCH] add a file_permission helper (diff) | |
| download | linux-49705b7743fd8f5632a95ec4c6547d169d27ac1f.tar.xz linux-49705b7743fd8f5632a95ec4c6547d169d27ac1f.zip | |
[PATCH] sanitize lookup_hash prototype
->permission and ->lookup have a struct nameidata * argument these days to
pass down lookup intents. Unfortunately some callers of lookup_hash don't
actually pass this one down. For lookup_one_len() we don't have a struct
nameidata to pass down, but as this function is a library function only
used by filesystem code this is an acceptable limitation. All other
callers should pass down the nameidata, so this patch changes the
lookup_hash interface to only take a struct nameidata argument and derives
the other two arguments to __lookup_hash from it. All callers already have
the nameidata argument available so this is not a problem.
At the same time I'd like to deprecate the lookup_hash interface as there
are better exported interfaces for filesystem usage. Before it can
actually be removed I need to fix up rpc_pipefs.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 910cc9998731..66e4ca28fc0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -118,3 +118,10 @@ Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue instead of the current 'libipq'. Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash) +When: January 2006 +Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead. +Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |