linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hostfs: fix mismatch between link

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Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:49:53 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostfs: fix mismatch between link_file definition and declaration

Am Montag, 18. März 2019, 00:09:09 CET schrieb Colin King:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The function link_file declaration in the header file has the order
> of the two arguments (from, to) swapped when compared to the definition
> arguments of (to, from).  Fix this by swapping them around to match
> the definition.
> 
> This error predates the git history, so no idea when this error
> was introduced.

commit bf4f804738544a95b8bc8d6a7e2629c3fc0240dd
Author: jdike <jdike>
Date:   Sat Dec 9 22:52:44 2000 +0000

    hostfs now mostly works.  Almost all of the common operations are now
    implemented, the main exceptions being mknod and executing files from
    a hostfs filesystem.

Enough archaeology for today. :-)

Thanks,
//richard