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Why dentry->d_qstr change in 2.6.7 ?

DISCUSSION Kristian Sørensen 4 participants 8 messages Jun 19, 2004 – Jun 23, 2004

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Hi!

Anyone know why the dentry->d_qstr in linux-2.6.7 has changed to dentry->d_name? (structure dentry defined in include/linux/dcache.h)

Cheers, KS.

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Kristian Sørensen <[email protected]>
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Can it really be, that noone knows why this change has been made !??

Quoted 7 lines · Kristian Sørensen

Hi!

Anyone know why the dentry->d_qstr in linux-2.6.7 has changed to dentry->d_name? (structure dentry defined in include/linux/dcache.h)

Cheers, KS.

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Kristian Sørensen <[email protected]>
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Quoted 1 line · Kristian Sørensen

Can it really be, that noone knows why this change has been made !??

There's certainly people who know. Look into the changelog to read what they have to say.

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That is why I sent the mail... it was not mentioned!

Quoted 11 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 1 line · Kristian Sørensen

Can it really be, that noone knows why this change has been made !??

There's certainly people who know. Look into the changelog to read what they have to say.

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Quoted 7 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 1 line · Kristian Sørensen

Can it really be, that noone knows why this change has been made !??

There's certainly people who know. Look into the changelog to read what they have to say.

afaik there is no way to obtain changelog information from the BK web interface, which is a significant shortcoming.

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Quoted 11 lines · Andrew Morton
Quoted 7 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 1 line · Kristian Sørensen

Can it really be, that noone knows why this change has been made !??

There's certainly people who know. Look into the changelog to read what they have to say.

afaik there is no way to obtain changelog information from the BK web interface, which is a significant shortcoming.

Oh, okay. Sorry for the RTFM then. On the otherhand there's been an url of a discussion on lwn.net posted now, so..