Re: [CFT] [JANITORIAL] Unbork fs.h
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:25:44 +0100
On January 3, 2002 05:20 pm, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On January 3, 2002 04:45 pm, 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.
>
> There are: sock_alloc rd_load_image. However that's a nit because the new,
> improved get_empty_inode understands the concept of null sb. (Another thing
> we could do is require every inode to have a superblock - that's probably
> where it will go in time.)
>
> We put this inside get_empty_inode:
>
> if (inode) {
^^^^^-----> whoops, getting tired, I meant (sb)
> inode->i_dev = sb->s_dev;
> inode->i_blkbits = sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> }
>
> then rename it new_inode. But this is outside of the scope of the fs.h work
> I'm doing, don't you think? There are a lot of things I'd like to clean up
> on the way through this, but it's probably best to just resist the temptation
> for now.
--
Daniel
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