[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 05/13] cifs: add new cifs_fattr struct for holding cifs inode attributes in common way

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:24:24PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> In order to unify some codepaths, introduce a common cifs_fattr struct
> for storing inode attributes. The different codepaths (unix, legacy,
> normal, etc...) can fill out this struct with inode info. It can then
> be passed as an arg to a common set of routines to get and update inodes.

Looks good, but should probably be merged into the next patch so that
we introduce a user together with the new structure.