Re: inode_lock "decorative"?

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:07:10 +0300 (MSK)


Hello!

> Correct fix is to get rid of this sock->inode thing completely. Check what
> fields of ->inode are used - you'll see that we can easily get rid of that
> mess. Will make things much cleaner. I can roll such patch tomorrow (after
> the new cache/symlink stuff will be done).

sock->inode is static helper pointer from inode to its beginning.
There are no reasons to account for it.
It is not converted to macro only because we have lots of unused space
in inode 8)

Alexey

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