Re: [patch] Combine path_put and path_put_conditional

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:50PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Here is another cleanup on top of Jan's set. Comments?
> 
> 
> The name path_put_conditional (formerly, dput_path) is a little unclear.
> Replace (path_put_conditional + path_put) with path_walk_put_both,
> "put a pair of paths after a path_walk" (see the kerneldoc).

I think this function is a good idea.  The name seems odd to me, but
I don't really have a better idea either.

> +static void path_walk_put_both(struct path *path1, struct path *path2)
> +{
> +	dput(path1->dentry);
> +	dput(path2->dentry);
> +	mntput(path1->mnt);
> +	if (path1->mnt != path2->mnt)
> +		mntput(path2->mnt);
>  }

Why do you opencode the path_put for path1?

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