type-safe vfs

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Jul 24 03:30:38 MDT 2009


On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:42:04PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > Comments?
> 
> It's not really my area, but it seems like a really big improvement.
> 
> My only question is: does it remove the SMB_VFS_LAYER_TRANSPARENT and
> SMB_VFS_LAYER_OPAQUE etc?  I've never had reason to try and understand
> what they did, so I don't know if it's a loss.

Yes, it removes them. The _OPAQUE_ macros were completely
unused anyway, so it was really unused. The new scheme is
right what you would expect: vfs_default provides the
default actions for all the operations, and modules can step
in, calling the lower level with _NEXT_.

Volker
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