Re: [Dri-devel] Re: 2.4.0-test7 bug - /proc/dri/<n> is a complete mess

[Tigran A. <ti...@ve...>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 	It works (correct combination? what correct combination?
> LOOKUP_POSITIVE and you are done,

ok, good. I suppose we also ought to set LOOKUP_DIRECTORY.

> just care to set nd->mnt/nd->dentry to
> root),

that is not trivial. Ok, I can do

nd->mnt = mntget(proc_mnt)

but what about nd->dentry? Actually even the above won't work as is,
because proc_mnt is not exported to modules.

> but I see absolutely no point in doing that. First of all,
> lookup_single() is way simpler.

what is lookup_single?

$ find -name '*.[ch]' | xargs fgrep -i lookup_single
$

> Moreover, it would be much better to
> have drmfs and just use its root. Yup, FS_SINGLE. Yup, user may mount it
> independently from /proc.

actually, this sounds like a good idea and I personally would agree with
you. But let's see what Rick (and ultimately, Linus) thinks. Having every
subsystem invent its own little filesystem is a bit... I don't know.

Regards,
Tigran