Commit 346f20ff authored Dec 08, 2006 by Josef "Jeff" Sipek Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 08, 2006

[PATCH] struct path: move struct path from fs/namei.c into include/linux



Moved struct path from fs/namei.c to include/linux/namei.h.  This allows many
places in the VFS, as well as any stackable filesystem to easily keep track of
dentry-vfsmount pairs.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent c922d5f7

fs/namei.c

+0 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -572,11 +572,6 @@ fail:
		return PTR_ERR(link);
		}

		struct path {
		struct vfsmount *mnt;
		struct dentry *dentry;
		};

		static inline void dput_path(struct path path, struct nameidata nd)
		{
		dput(path->dentry);

include/linux/namei.h

+5 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ struct nameidata {
		} intent;
		};

		struct path {
		struct vfsmount *mnt;
		struct dentry *dentry;
		};

		/*
		* Type of the last component on LOOKUP_PARENT
		*/

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