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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:54:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, zippel@...ux-m68k.org, dhowells@...hat.com, linux-cifs-client@...ts.samba.org, codalist@...EMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, joel.becker@...cle.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@...hat.com, user-mode-linux-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, wli@...omorphy.com, jffs-dev@...s.com, jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, bfennema@...con.csc.calpoly.edu, xfs@....sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] move handling of setuid/gid bits from VFS into individual setattr functions (RESEND) On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:45:34 -0400 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> wrote: > > - rename something so that unconverted filesystems will reliably fail to > > compile? > > > > - leave existing filesystems alone, but add a new > > inode_operations.setattr_jeff, which the networked filesytems can > > implement, and teach core vfs to call setattr_jeff in preference to > > setattr? > > If you really need to know that the filesystem is handling the flags, > then how about instead having ->setattr() return something which > indicates which flags it actually handled? That is likely to be a far > more intrusive change, but it is one which is future-proof. If we change ->setattr so that it will return a positive, non-zero value which the caller can then check and reliably do printk("that filesystem needs updating") then that addresses my concern, sure. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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