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authorJosef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>2006-12-08 02:36:34 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-08 08:28:40 -0800
commit346f20ff6020ffa11d40b789069079c56a444ae6 (patch)
tree4828582ab5d8fe865de5a6b1524670963de9acaf
parentc922d5f7f5457da9e9b5a26dd53e2dcef6ca2f7d (diff)
[PATCH] struct path: move struct path from fs/namei.c into include/linux
Moved struct path from fs/namei.c to include/linux/namei.h. This allows many places in the VFS, as well as any stackable filesystem to easily keep track of dentry-vfsmount pairs. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c5
-rw-r--r--include/linux/namei.h5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index db1bca26d88..8c2db88bb20 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -572,11 +572,6 @@ fail:
return PTR_ERR(link);
}
-struct path {
- struct vfsmount *mnt;
- struct dentry *dentry;
-};
-
static inline void dput_path(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd)
{
dput(path->dentry);
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index f5f19606eff..d39a5a67e97 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ struct nameidata {
} intent;
};
+struct path {
+ struct vfsmount *mnt;
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+};
+
/*
* Type of the last component on LOOKUP_PARENT
*/