From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Scott Baker <smbaker@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fault when using iget() on XFS file system (2.6.9)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:49:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922234927.GU29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35a82d00609221642u2e4a5026w434584ff77b7b9bb@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Scott Baker wrote:
> I'm working on a kernel module that needs to perform an iget() on an
> inode that lies in the XFS file system.
Explain why you think you need iget(). It's almost certainly a Bad Idea(tm) -
code outside of filesystem has no business calling it.
Without more context there's no way anyone can help. What does that
module attempt to do?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 23:49 UTC|newest]
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2006-09-22 23:42 Scott Baker
2006-09-22 23:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-09-23 1:20 ` Scott Baker
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