On January 3, 2002 05:45 pm, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > In article <E16M7Gz-00015E-00@starship.berlin> you wrote:
> > > - inode = get_empty_inode();
> > > + inode = get_empty_inode(sb);
> >
> > How about killing get_empty_inode completly and using new_inode() instead?
> > There should be no regularly allocated inode without a superblock.
>
> Seconded. However, you'll need to zero out ->i_dev for objects that
> traditionally have zero ->st_dev (pipes and sockets).
If you spell out exactly what special case treatment you'd like for i_dev,
I'll make the changes to get rid of get_empty_inode.
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