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SubjectRe: [PATCH] get_empty_inode() cleanup


On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> on the other hand, even 1 minute's thought reveals that making strict
> logical separation between "consumers of inode with sb" and "consumers of
> inode without sb" is probably worth the overhead of an extra function
> call. So, I don't strongly feel about the above... maybe you are right :)

It's not the with sb/without sb thing. Everything is much simpler -
changing the get_empty_inode() prototype means mandatory changes in
all 3rd-party code. Code freeze and all such...

IOW, unmodified code doesn't break from the addition of helper function,
but changing get_empty_inode() will break (albeit in a trivial way)
every bloody filesystem out there. Not a problem for 2.5, but doing that
now for no good reason...

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