[PATCH] remove module_path_to_name() from vfs subsystem

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 14 13:59:08 GMT 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 23:54, metze at metzemix.de wrote:
>  --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- 
> Datum: 14.05.2003 11:41
> Von: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at nl.linux.org>
> An: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze at metzemix.de>
> Betreff: Re: [PATCH] remove module_path_to_name() from vfs subsystem
>   
> > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:20:47AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
> wrote about '[PATCH] remove module_path_to_name() from vfs subsystem':
> > > Hi Alexander,
> > 
> > > just a small fix, as Jelmer requested "don't use module_path_to_name()
> 
> > > anymore..."
> > 
> > This patch breaks VFS. It's not as simple as this. If you have 'vfs
> > path' set stuff will break. I didn't remove this yet because it
> > requires somewhat more work then just removing a line in smbd/vfs.c...
> 
> We didn't have 'vfs path' anymore!
> 
> and we didn't(shouldn't) accept file names in 'vfs objects' anymore!
> 
> I really don't think that that patch will break anything!

What happened to backward compatibility?

Andrew Bartlett

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