From 346f20ff6020ffa11d40b789069079c56a444ae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Josef \"Jeff\" Sipek" <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 02:36:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [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>
---
fs/namei.c | 5 -----
include/linux/namei.h | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index db1bca26d88c..8c2db88bb20d 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 f5f19606effb..d39a5a67e979 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
*/