Re: [PATCH 4/7] XFS: Return case-insensitive match for dentry cache

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:41:20PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> I haven't really been following this, but I was wondering if this could
> be made generic and used in the CIFS code as well.  They currently (I
> think) have an awefull hack where they update the name in the dentry
> (which throws a warning about dropping a const attribute in the memcpy).

yes, it should.  the new lookup higher level code added here should
probably be a helper in dcache.c although that'll need a new abstraction
for the unicode table handling.