Re: [PATCH v3 06/14] fsnotify: pass dentry instead of inode for events possible on child

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:22 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu 19-03-20 17:10:14, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > Most events that can be reported to watching parent pass
> > FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH as event data, except for FS_ARRTIB and FS_MODIFY
> > as a result of truncate.
> >
> > Define a new data type to pass for event - FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY
> > and use it to pass the dentry instead of it's ->d_inode for those events.
> >
> > Soon, we are going to use the dentry data type to report events
> > with name info in fanotify backend.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I've skipped this patch because FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY is not used by
> anything in this series... Just that you don't wonder when rebasing later.
>

No problem.
I had my series ordered fsnotify then fanotify, that's why it was there.
It really belongs to the FAN_REPORT_NAME patches.

Thanks,
Amir.



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