Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:55:16 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.3-pre3 |
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The inode thing has left umsdos broken, but Al promises to have that fixed > soonish.
Umm... Actually in -pre3 UMSDOS is still functional (and ->u.umsdos_inode_info is still there). I'll break it in the next series of patches ;-)
BTW, maintainers of filesystems are welcome to send patches. Stuff in ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/MA* should be enough to figure it out - everything is fairly straightforward.
Two notes: * unlike the ->u, private components of inode are _not_ zeroed out by VFS in the new scheme, so you need to do explicit initialization in foo_read_inode()/foo_new_inode. * please, call the generic part 'vfs_inode'. In this case it's more than just being consistent - it avoids tons of false positives in sanity checks (in general a structure with struct inode as a field is bad news)
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