On Sun, 7 May 2000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > And people then _applaud_ this move?
>
> Not the cookie per se, but the struct file move.
Oh.
If anybody whips out a patch to do the "struct file" move, and not have a
"void *", then I'll apply that. No problem. I agree 100% with the fact
that "struct file" is the fundamental IO entity - even if it turns out
that most users don't actually need either the file nor the dentry to
actually do the physical IO (ie all "unix-like" filesystems will always be
happy with just the inode - that is, to some degree, what "unix-like"
really means).
The thing I reacted negatively to in the patch was really not the move
from dentry->file, but the type information loss.
Linus
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