Re: Quota & XFS patch

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 11:42:04 EST


On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jan Kara wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm sending you Nathan's patch which implements things
> in quotactl interface needed for XFS. If you can remember
> the patch was already floating around some time
> ago and was generally accepted... Please apply (it will
> at least simplify patching of kernels for XFS).

Why are you leaving some copy_from_user() in methods? Either the structures
you are passing are fs-independent and everybody would be better off with
having them copied in one place or they are not, and then API is completely
broken.

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