Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:30:38 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make lookup_create non-static | From | (Jesse Barnes) |
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:57:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) wrote: > > > > You mean copy lookup_create into hwgfs (which is already in the tree, > > btw)? Yeah, I guess I could do that if you don't want to take this. > > ah, I thought you were referring to an out-of-tree filesystem. > > It would appear that intermezzo has already created a private copy of > lookup_create(). Sigh. > > If we're going to export this thing to filesystems then it really should be > documented a bit. You could bribe me with a patch which does that ;)
Ok, how does this look?
Jesse
===== fs/namei.c 1.81 vs edited ===== --- 1.81/fs/namei.c Thu Jul 10 22:23:45 2003 +++ edited/fs/namei.c Mon Aug 4 15:28:38 2003 @@ -1375,8 +1375,15 @@ goto do_last; } -/* SMP-safe */ -static struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir) +/** + * lookup_create - lookup a dentry, creating it if it doesn't exist + * @nd: nameidata info + * @is_dir: directory flag + * + * Simple function to lookup and return a dentry and create it + * if it doesn't exist. Is SMP-safe. + */ +struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir) { struct dentry *dentry; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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