On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:45:34 -0400
Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> wrote:
> > - rename something so that unconverted filesystems will reliably fail to
> > compile?
> >
> > - leave existing filesystems alone, but add a new
> > inode_operations.setattr_jeff, which the networked filesytems can
> > implement, and teach core vfs to call setattr_jeff in preference to
> > setattr?
>
> If you really need to know that the filesystem is handling the flags,
> then how about instead having ->setattr() return something which
> indicates which flags it actually handled? That is likely to be a far
> more intrusive change, but it is one which is future-proof.
If we change ->setattr so that it will return a positive, non-zero value
which the caller can then check and reliably do printk("that filesystem
needs updating") then that addresses my concern, sure.
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