Re: [PATCH] Introduce vfs_listxattr

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:10:48 -0400
Josef Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch moves code out of fs/xattr.c:listxattr into a new function -
> vfs_listxattr. The code for vfs_listxattr was originally submitted by Bill
> Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> to Unionfs.

That tells us what the patch does.  In general, please be sure to also tell
us *why* you prepared a patch.

Does this patch allow unionfs to be loaded into an otherwise unpatched
kernel.org kernel?  If so, that seems to be a good reason for including
this patch into the mainline kernel.
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