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SubjectRe: [PATCH] direct-IO API change



On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Chuck Lever wrote:
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> this patch adds a "struct file *" argument to direct I/O. this is needed
> by NFS direct I/O to make the file's credentials available to direct I/O
> subroutines. we can't remove "struct inode *" yet because the raw driver
> still needs it.

Why isn't the raw driver changed to just use file->f_dentry->d_inode
instead?

Linus

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