Re: [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENTlookup

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 15:44:47 EST


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:58:11PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
> lookup_hash() with LOOKUP_PARENT is bogus. And this prepares to add
> new intent on those path.
>
> The user of LOOKUP_PARENT intent is nfs only, and it checks whether
> nd->flags has LOOKUP_CREATE or LOOKUP_OPEN, so the result is same.

Makes sense to me, but in this area you really need to work against
Al's vfs.git tree as there's quite some work going on.

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