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

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Message-Id: <20070927145423.32ae6d1c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:54:23 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	haveblue@...ibm.com, hch@...radead.org, 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, 27 Sep 2007 14:51:25 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > Plus, reiserfs seems to compile with that patch I just sent.  Sure as
> > heck surprised me.
> > 
> 
> That'll be because reiserfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch witched reiserfs over
> to ->write_begin() and ->write_end().

Actually, we should rename reiserfs_prepare_write and reiserfs_commit_write
to something else to reduce confusion.  Probably lots of other filesystems
would benefit from the same change, post-Nick's-stuff.
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