Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 16:15:20 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iget-locked [2/6] |
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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > No problems, except for putting exports in inode.c. ISTR Linus saying that > > additional files with exports seriously increase the build time... Linus? > > A few additional ones are fine - especially for "core" stuff like inode.c > I don't see any problem at all. > > And keeping EXPORT_SYMBOL close to the place that defines it makes some > things clearer. I would certainly not mind moving some of the > kernel/ksym.c stuff out to the places that actually define the functions. > > If it becomes an issue where _most_ files in export symbols, our build > times will suck, but fs/inode.c is certainly central enough that I don't > find any problem with it.
OK. BTW, would you accept ->getattr() patchset if I start to feed it to you today?
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