linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 18/18] xstat: Provide a mechanism to gather extra results for [f]xstat() [ver #6]

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Message-ID: <20100718085140.GD27794@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:51:40 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] xstat: Provide a mechanism to gather extra results
 for [f]xstat() [ver #6]

As mentioned before this is total overkill.  The request/respond flags
together with the buffer size already provide enough ways to extent
the structure in a backwards compatible way if needed.

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