[PATCH 01/30] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Hansen
After several posts and bug reports regarding interaction with the NULL nameidata, here's a patch to clean up the mess with struct file in the reiserfs xattr code. As observed in several of the posts, there's really no need for struct file to exist in the xattr code. It was really only passed ar

[RFC][PATCH 01/30] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Hansen
After several posts and bug reports regarding interaction with the NULL nameidata, here's a patch to clean up the mess with struct file in the reiserfs xattr code. As observed in several of the posts, there's really no need for struct file to exist in the xattr code. It was really only passed ar