From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, viro@math.psu.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.5.2.9: ext2 unbork fs.h (part 1/7)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 04:06:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16Nmb2-0003Cv-00@starship.berlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020107132121.241311F6A@gtf.org> <E16NbYF-0001Qq-00@starship.berlin> <3C3A1256.BFF12A@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C3A1256.BFF12A@mandrakesoft.com>
On January 7, 2002 10:25 pm, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > The two main problems I see with this are:
> >
> > - If a filesystem doesn't want to use genericp_ip/sbp then fs.h has
> > to know about it. Why should fs.h know about every filesystem in
> > the world?
>
> We keep type information through this method. There is no ugly casting.
There is a far uglier 1) tying of fs.h to every filesystem in the world 2) a
gratuitous extra pointer dereference and 3) a pointer field wasted in every
inode.
In the ugly contest, you win, hands down.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-08 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-07 13:21 Jeff Garzik
2002-01-07 14:13 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-07 15:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 6:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-08 6:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 6:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 16:01 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-07 16:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 17:25 ` Mark Zealey
2002-01-07 15:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 20:54 ` Juan Quintela
2002-01-08 4:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 21:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 3:06 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-01-07 23:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 0:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-08 0:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 3:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 16:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-07 19:38 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-07 21:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-07 23:28 ` [PATCH 7/7 v2] " Jeff Garzik
2002-01-07 23:49 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2002-01-07 23:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-07 21:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-07 21:49 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-07 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-07 23:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 0:17 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
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