linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] xattr handlers: Pass handler to operations instead of flags

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Message-ID: <20151004062529.GC28519@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 3 Oct 2015 23:25:29 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] xattr handlers: Pass handler to operations
 instead of flags

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:26:49PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The xattr_handler operations are currently all passed a file system
> specific flags value which the operations can use to disambiguate between
> different handlers; some file systems use that to distinguish the xattr
> namespace, for example.  In some oprations, it would be useful to also have
> access to the handler prefix.  To allow that, pass a pointer to the handler
> to operations instead of the flags value alone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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