Re: [PATCH] 2.4.20 Direct IO patch for NFS. (Note: a trivial API change...)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:34:04PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
>   The following patch implements direct I/O for NFS as a compilation option.
> It does not in any way touch the standard NFS read/write code, however it
> does change the interface for generic direct I/O: Instead of taking a
> 'struct inode' argument, we need to take the full 'struct file' in order
> to be able to pass the RPC credential information down to the NFS layer.

I don't think changing the filesystem entry points during 2.4 is an option.