On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:41:18 +0200, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> > > Like most other inode operations ->permission() should take a dentry > instead of an inode. This is necessary for filesystems which operate > on names not on inodes. > This change will also help 9P patch series i am doing http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1032788 Currently ACL values are fetched from the server as a part of inode initialization. We can't do it in inode operations->permission because we need dentry to do 9P operations. Having inode operations->permission take a dentry instead of an inode help there. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
