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From"Manfred Spraul" <>
SubjectRe: [RFC] event cleanup, part 2
DateWed, 2 Jan 2002 10:19:05 +0100
From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
> On Tuesday January 1, manfred@colorfullife.com wrote:
> > Linus merged the first part of my patches that remove
> > 'event' into 2.5.2-pre3.
> > 
> > Attached is the second patch.
> > 
> > patch 1: remove all event users except readdir().
> > Merged.
> 
> Not quite.  ext2 and ext3 (At least) use event to set i_generation to
> a pseudo-random number, and that still seems to be so in 2.5.2-pre6.
> What do you plan to do with that usage of event?
> Possibly replacing it with net_random or similar would be fine.
>

I've replaced i_generation with a random number in ext2, that change
is part of 2.5.2-pre6.
I've sent the patch to ext3 to the maintainers.

--
    Manfred

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