Re: [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out [17/70]

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Mon Dec 04 2006 - 05:03:23 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:19 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:15 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > >From 539e5d6b7ae8612c0393fe940d2da5b591318d3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:07:05 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out
> >
> > Everywhere this was called, a struct gfs2_inode was available,
> > but despite that, it was always called with a struct gfs2_dinode
> > as an argument. By making this change it paves the way to start
> > eliminating fields duplicated between the kernel's struct inode
> > and the struct gfs2_dinode.
> More pointless code churn.
>
> This only makes sense once the file system is working
> and we have time to do this type of cleanup on against
> a stable and TESTED code base.
>
I disagree and refer you to the comments from Al Viro and Pavel Machek
on this subject,

Steve.


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