Re: [PATCH 07/39] vfs: export vfs_ioctl() to modules

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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:04:41PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> FS_IOC*
>>
>> Haven't looked deeply.  For now overlayfs just implements
>> FS_IOC_{GET|SET}FLAGS because some of these flags are quite generic
>> and implementing them on the overlay is easy.
>>
>> Yes, turning into a method makes sense.
>
> Do you want to do this or should I send a patch?

Do it.  You are much more familiar with regular fs that implement
these ioctls.  Untangling overlap between FS_IOC_...FLAGS and
FS_IOC_...XATTR looks "interesting".

Thanks,
Miklos



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