From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761195AbXJLJZz (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:25:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933011AbXJLJT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:19:58 -0400 Received: from smtp108.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.218]:45075 "HELO smtp108.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933006AbXJLJT4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:19:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=ttUxoOPAMxmLJL4C8HjAIfOzC9L+OzftQYU0cTyLHoPDzVG1fV5q5V706CQ0yO5n2MvMxijnSC/hXWAFtr0thkd4Zf4PMKPf5SDKG0gyp5zNga77iBMNSVOFOu6eXHZTm/gp85au3VgFD/8mEGwyP4k/EjTLBzMIodwpjrz5LjY= ; X-YMail-OSG: A48_f6kVM1l3Gd819ZAqWQ67wPoBKL5EWAEpipAlP1MZOOd.fDRt8xoxSTO.yteoEdxZPSqiPA-- From: Nick Piggin To: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #4] Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:48:05 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20071012090709.3442.69133.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071012090709.3442.69133.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710120248.05506.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 12 October 2007 19:07, David Howells wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Here's a set of patches that remove all calls to iget() and all > read_inode() functions. They should be removed for two reasons: firstly > they don't lend themselves to good error handling, and secondly their > presence is a temptation for code outside a filesystem to call iget() to > access inodes within that filesystem. Is there any particular reason not to push these through -mm?