[PATCH] struct path: move struct path from fs/namei.c into include/linux

Moved struct path from fs/namei.c to include/linux/namei.h.  This allows many
places in the VFS, as well as any stackable filesystem to easily keep track of
dentry-vfsmount pairs.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index f5f19606effb..d39a5a67e979 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ struct nameidata {
         } intent;
 };
 
+struct path {
+        struct vfsmount *mnt;
+        struct dentry *dentry;
+};
+
 /*
  * Type of the last component on LOOKUP_PARENT
  */