>On 7/29/07, Diego Woitasen <diego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > recently I post a patch to remove the lock_kernel() in the > ioctl() of drivers/block/loop.c. After that Andrew Morton add a > a change where he gets the inode pointer from > file->f_mapping->host, needed because loop.c now uses > unlocked_ioctl(). Reading the do_ioctl() code in fs/ioctl.c I > see that there the inode pointer is get from > filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode. > > So, which inode pointer do i should use? Are the the same > always? > I noticed in there's a post about this question, but no answer. I want to ask this too. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/14/325 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
