On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:06:04PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This patch introduces a callback in the super_operations structure, > > 'get_maps_dev' which is then used by procfs to query which device to return > > for reporting in /proc/[PID]/maps. > > No. > > It may make sense to call the vfs stat method. But introducing an extra > vfs operations for this seems like a maintenance nightmare. Yeah I'm not thrilled with the extra method either. My concern with using ->getattr is whether it's too heavy since that implies potential disk / network i/o. --Mark -- Mark Fasheh -- 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
