Re: fsstack: struct path

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:12:22AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yuck...  If we really want to switch to it (and I can give you a dozen
> > examples of possible users right now - starting with struct file), putting
> > namei_ into it is both uninformative and ugly.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what would be the good name here; "pathname" comes to mind,
> > but it suggests that we are dealing with a string.  And "location" is
> > too vague (and probably would cause fsckloads of conflicts itself).
> > 
> > Suggestions?  "pathname" would almost work; the difference is that this
> > is not a string but a node in tree that string resolves to.
> 
> path_item?

struct path_node, perhaps?
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