[PATCH 4/5] xattr handlers: Pass handler to operations instead of flags
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Sep 16 07:16:14 PDT 2015
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 01:57:21PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The xattr_handler operations are currently all passed a file system specific
> flags value which the operations can use to disambiguate between different
> handlers; some file systems use that to distinguish the xattr namespace, for
> example. In some oprations, it would be useful to also have access to the
> handler prefix. To allow that, pass a pointer to the handler to operations
> instead of the flags value alone.
Looks ok, but the more usual calling convention would be to pass
the handler as the first argument.
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