linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] make reiserfs stop using 'struct file' for internal xattr operations

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:04:23 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] make reiserfs stop using 'struct file' for internal xattr operations

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:53:39PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> -int reiserfs_commit_write(struct file *f, struct page *page,
> -			  unsigned from, unsigned to);
> -int reiserfs_prepare_write(struct file *f, struct page *page,
> -			   unsigned from, unsigned to);
> +int reiserfs_commit_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to);
> +int reiserfs_prepare_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to);

I doubt this will work.  These are also used for the ->prepare_write
and ->commit_write aops, and the method signature definitively wants
a file there, even if it's zero..

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