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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: kill i_dev
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:07:25 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200211210007.gAL07Pa07926.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> (raw)

One disadvantage of enlarging the size of dev_t is
that struct inode grows. Bad.
We used to have i_dev and i_rdev; today i_rdev has split into
i_rdev, i_bdev and i_cdev. Bad.

It looks like these four fields can be replaced by a single one,
making struct inode smaller. Not bad.

The first step would be to delete the field i_dev, and
all assignments to it, and replace all remaining occurrences
by i_sb->s_dev.

Roughly speaking, the only use of this field is in the stat
system call.

Any objections?

Andries


             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-21  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-21  0:07 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
2002-11-21  0:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-21  1:33 Andries.Brouwer
2002-11-21  2:58 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-21 18:12 Andries.Brouwer

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