Re: [PATCH] Son of Unbork (1 of 3)

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On February 25, 2002 06:24 pm, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> > This three patch set completes the removal of ext2-specific includes from 
> > fs.h.  When this is done, your kernel will compile a little faster, the Ext2 
> > source will be organized a little better, and then infamous fs.h super_block 
> > union will no longer hurt your eyes.  When every filesystem has been changed 
> > in a similar way, fs.h will finally be generic, in-memory super_blocks will be
> > somewhat smaller, and the kernel will compile quite a lot faster.  And peace
> > will come once more to Middle-Earth.  (I made that last part up.)
> > 
> > Patch 1 adds alloc_super and destroy_super methods to struct file_system.  A 
> 
> Vetoed.

Thanks for the eloquent and informative response.

-- 
Daniel