Subject: Re: killing the "l" argument from vfs
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/24/2007 21:49:53
In article <20071124200835.GA2143@cs.hut.fi>,
Antti Kantee  <pooka@cs.hut.fi> wrote:
>I'm working on a patch which will rid the vfs interfaces of the randomly
>teleporting "l".  At least VFS_ and VOP_ will get the treatment, I still
>need to investigate componentname.  This will clarify the interfaces,
>as currently the passed value for lwp might be NULL in some cases.
>The new way is to fetch curlwp if it's desired (which is already done
>in plenty of places due to "l" not being always passed)..
>
>If someone has problems with this, please scream very loudly very soon.

Does NFS need it? We should not take it out if we are going to put it back.

christos