Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:00:10 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename |
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Incidentally, why the hell do we have > typedef __kernel_nlink_t nlink_t; > anyway? It's *not* exposed to userland and it's different from the > userland nlink_t (which is unsigned int on 32bit and unsigned long on 64bit). > Why not use __kernel_nlink_t (or explicitly-sized __uNN) in > arch/*/include/asm/stat.h and declare nlink_t kernel-side as __u32?
Probably hysterical raisins, and just converted to the whole __kernel_nlink_t form together with other, more relevant things.
Feel free to remove it.
> Why do we have daddr_t, while we are at it? There is exactly one user - > fs/freevxfs and there we definitely want a fixed-sized type.
I think it's something that probably came from freevxfs and BSD roots or similar. It's a BSD'ism, afaik.
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