Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:44 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Separating type name from everything else makes a lot of sense

I do not dispute that at all.

But you can specify the type name in the "commit" phase, it doesn't
have to be at "fsopen" time.

In fact, doing so would _force_ a certain cleanliness to the
interfaces - it would force the rest to be filesystem-agnostic, rather
than possibly have semantic hacks for some part.

            Linus