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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2008-08-11 15:48:57 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-10-23 05:13:00 -0400
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[PATCH] new helper: d_obtain_alias
The calling conventions of d_alloc_anon are rather unfortunate for all users, and it's name is not very descriptive either. Add d_obtain_alias as a new exported helper that drops the inode reference in the failure case, too and allows to pass-through NULL pointers and inodes to allow for tail-calls in the export operations. Incidentally this helper already existed as a private function in libfs.c as exportfs_d_alloc so kill that one and switch the callers to d_obtain_alias. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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