Re: [PATCH] vfs: remove unnecessary fl_owner_t typedef

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On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 02:48:40PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> This is a pretty simple patch that touches a lot of files.  What's the
> procedure for handling patches like this?  I haven't had to do this
> before.

I'm not sure it's a good idea.  We want it opaque - if anything, I would
prefer to have anything mistakenly passing it to a function that takes
a pointer scream like hell at build time.  The current variant doesn't
have such protection, but it can at least be grepped for.  void * can't. 



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