Re: [CFT] [JANITORIAL] Unbork fs.h

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:45:14 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> In article <E16M7Gz-00015E-00@starship.berlin> you wrote:
> > - inode = get_empty_inode();
> > + inode = get_empty_inode(sb);
>
> How about killing get_empty_inode completly and using new_inode() instead?
> There should be no regularly allocated inode without a superblock.

Seconded. However, you'll need to zero out ->i_dev for objects that
traditionally have zero ->st_dev (pipes and sockets).

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