Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:25:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] direct-IO API change |
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Chuck Lever wrote: > > 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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