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SubjectRe: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes
Richard Gooch wrote:
> Yes, I can see the benefit of avoiding the NULL check. It would be
> nice to be able to do this. However, that would then require every
> driver to be updated on every addition of a new VFS method.

It's possible, in the NULL case, that the check is faster than the
function call to the default function.

> However, if there was some compiler trickery we could employ such that
> a VFS change doesn't require source code to be touched, it would be a
> good idea. Being able to strip those method existence tests would make
> code a bit more readable and would also save a few cycles. But I don't
> see how to do it without making drivers not distributed with the
> kernel much harder to maintain.

You're describing C++ virtual functions.

-- Jamie

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