Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:47:06PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that
> >> convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals
> >> with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant
> >> which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't
> >> look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper.
> > 
> > Huh?  You do have dentries, for crying out loud...
> 
> Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only.
> Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands...

What's wrong with saying "we don't support idiotify"?
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