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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2005-11-08 21:35:06 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-09 07:56:00 -0800
commit49705b7743fd8f5632a95ec4c6547d169d27ac1f (patch)
treeb209b1f94bfcfee522c44d2abef1cdb196219a52 /Documentation
parent8c744fb83da0771afa04695028e3550b798dad90 (diff)
[PATCH] sanitize lookup_hash prototype
->permission and ->lookup have a struct nameidata * argument these days to pass down lookup intents. Unfortunately some callers of lookup_hash don't actually pass this one down. For lookup_one_len() we don't have a struct nameidata to pass down, but as this function is a library function only used by filesystem code this is an acceptable limitation. All other callers should pass down the nameidata, so this patch changes the lookup_hash interface to only take a struct nameidata argument and derives the other two arguments to __lookup_hash from it. All callers already have the nameidata argument available so this is not a problem. At the same time I'd like to deprecate the lookup_hash interface as there are better exported interfaces for filesystem usage. Before it can actually be removed I need to fix up rpc_pipefs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 910cc9998731..66e4ca28fc0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -118,3 +118,10 @@ Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent
to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue
instead of the current 'libipq'.
Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
+When: January 2006
+Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>