Re: [PATCH] Son of Unbork (1 of 3)

[Alexander Viro]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> > Patch 1 adds alloc_super and destroy_super methods to struct file_system.  A 
> Vetoed.

To elaborate: there is no reason why private stuff couldn't be allocated
by ext2_fill_super() and freed by ext2_put_super().  What's more, there
is no reason why it would break for any other fs.  IOW, new methods are
not necessary.  Now apply Occam's Razor.