[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>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index db1bca2..8c2db88 100644 (file)
--- 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 f5f1960..d39a5a6 100644 (file)
--- 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
  */