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Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> void *.
> 
> Look, methods of your address_space certainly know what they hell they
> are dealing with. Just as autofs_root_readdir() knows what inode->u.generic_ip
> really points to.
> 
> Anybody else has no business to care about the contents of ->host.
> 

Why do we need a ->host at all, then?  Why not simply make it a private
pointer?

	-hpa

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