In article <cs.lists.linux-fsdevel/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
you wrote:
> So I'm now leaning more towards losing the struct file/dentry from the
> address_space ops. Furthermore, since the address_space structure showed up
> relatively recently, we might consider cleaning up this API before 2.4. I
> believe my stacking code would work fine w/o these struct file/dentry being
> passed around (Ion, can you verify this please?)
As long as the interface doesn't require a struct file *, we don't require it
either, as we don't keep any info in a file's private data (aside from the
obvious pointer to the stacked file structure).
Ion
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