linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/22] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's

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Message-Id: <20070209151848.3b7f98c1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:18:48 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's

On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:29 -0800
Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com> wrote:

> +/*
> + * Note: This is a crappy interface.  It is here to make
> + * merging with the existing users of get_empty_filp()
> + * who have complex failure logic easier.  All users
> + * of this should be moving to alloc_file().
> + */
> +int init_file(struct file *file, struct vfsmount *mnt,
> +	   struct dentry *dentry, mode_t mode,
> +	   const struct file_operations *fop)

crappy name too ;)  At least two filesystems have defined their own
static-scope init_file() and so they'll explode if they somehow maange
to include file.h.

I guess we can cross that bridge when we fall off it, but sometime it might be
prudent to do s/init_file/configfs_init_file/ and ditto sysfs_init_file.
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