linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] fsstack: Introduce fsstack_copy_{attr,inode}

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Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:33:39 -0400
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Andrew James Wade <andrew.j.wade@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, hch@...radead.org,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, ezk@...sunysb.edu,
	mhalcrow@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] fsstack: Introduce fsstack_copy_{attr,inode}_*

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> >To: null@...efsipek.net
> 
> (Superb idea to prekill any Cc, re-adding them)
 
Yeah, I like to test the emails but I accidentally sent them. From now on,
no testing :)
 
> >+void __fsstack_copy_attr_all(struct inode *dest,
> >+			     const struct inode *src,
> >+			     int (*get_nlinks)(struct inode *))
> >+{
> >[big]
> >+}
> >+
> >+/* externs for fs/stack.c */
> >+extern void __fsstack_copy_attr_all(struct inode *dest,
> >+				    const struct inode *src,
> >+				    int (*get_nlinks)(struct inode *));
> >+
> >+static inline void fsstack_copy_attr_all(struct inode *dest,
> >+					 const struct inode *src)
> >+{
> >+	__fsstack_copy_attr_all(dest, src, NULL);
> >+}
> 
> Do we really need this indirection? Can't __fsstack_copy_attr_all be 
> named fsstack_copy_attr_all instead?

I suppose it could. There is no API-breakage to avoid.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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