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SubjectRe: fsstack: struct path
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:06:23 +0100
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:35:51AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:31:03 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > One, rather unfortunate, fact is that struct path is also defined in
> > > > include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h as something completely different - reiserfs
> > > > specific.
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts?
> > > >
> > >
> > > reiserfs is being bad. s/path/reiserfs_path/g
> >
> > There's also drivers/md/dm-mpath.h's struct path. Renaming fs/namei.c's
> > `struct path' to `struct namei_path' would be prudent.
>
> Yuck... If we really want to switch to it (and I can give you a dozen
> examples of possible users right now - starting with struct file), putting
> namei_ into it is both uninformative and ugly.
>
> I'm not sure what would be the good name here; "pathname" comes to mind,
> but it suggests that we are dealing with a string. And "location" is
> too vague (and probably would cause fsckloads of conflicts itself).
>
> Suggestions? "pathname" would almost work; the difference is that this
> is not a string but a node in tree that string resolves to.

path_item?
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