Re: [RESEND PATCH] fs/super.c set_anon_super calling optimization

From: Carlos Maiolino
Date: Fri Oct 26 2012 - 09:14:40 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:08:19PM +0530, Abhijit Pawar wrote:
> Hi,
> set_anon_super is called by many filesystems. Some call directly and
> some call through the wrapper. Many of them in the wrapper's call to
> this function are passing the second argument to this function which
> is not used anywhere.
>
> This patch replaces the second variable with NULL.
>

If the variable isn't used anymore, why don't just get rid of it, instead of
call the function passing a NULL pointer on it?

--
--Carlos
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