[PATCH 0/1] [RFC] New mode for path_lookup (V1)

2007-04-29 Thread Josef Sipek
Stackable file systems frequently need to lookup paths or path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace (identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup intent along; not passing

[PATCH 0/1] [RFC] New mode for path_lookup (V1)

2007-04-29 Thread Josef Sipek
Stackable file systems frequently need to lookup paths or path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace (identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup intent along; not passing