Re: [RFC 01/10] Split up struct nameidata

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 15:32:21 EST


On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:16:23PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Split up struct nameidata into struct vfs_lookup with the lookup result
> and intent and the remaining fields for performing an actual lookup.

Looks good as a start, but please don't put a struct path in there,
as the vfsmount will go away from the lookup intent as soon as we have
a new inode operation for atomic create + open, and not having it in the
struct path will make that removal a lot less painfull.

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