Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Alexander Zarochentsev <> | | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins | | Date | Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:28:49 +0400 |
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On Monday 27 June 2005 13:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:30:06PM +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: > > -- procfs has seq_file and sysconfig interfaces below the VFS and l-k > > people do not complain each day about layering violation ;-) Procfs is > > taken as an example because it deals with objects of different types, > > actually anybody may create own procfs objects more or less general way. > > seq_file actually works at the file_operations level, that's exactly > what I'm telling you to do. The old sub-callbacks are on their way out.
not exactly. I meant that seq_file has its own VFS-like thing struct seq_operations.
So I may assume that having own objects and their operations is allowed. The complains are about adding unnecessary level of indirection in the trivial reiser4 wrappers as reiser4_write().
> > I don't belive that you want to see all reiser4-specific things as item > > plugins, disk format plugins in the VFS. > > If you'd read the previous discussions you'd see that no one complained > about disk format plugins.
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