Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

David Ford wrote:

> Will Dyson wrote:
>
> > Hans Reiser wrote:
> >
> > > Will Dyson wrote:
> >
> >
> > String parsing bloats the kernel with code that will be called 
> > rarely, and doing it inside the filesystem module makes for duplicate 
> > code if more than one filesystem does it. But a good common parser 
> > routine (or a kernel api that takes a pre-compiled parse tree) would 
> > reduce the bad taste.
>
>
>
> Like say.. printk() ?  :)
or namei()....;-)

Seriously, what we are doing is making namei() more powerful.  That is 
all.  Currently namei() is very simple.  Evolution happens.

Hans
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