On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Zach Brown wrote:
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>
> If you're soliciting opinions, I think I tend to prefer the feel of the
> code paths after the changes.  I don't know the benefits of the change
> are worth the risk in unmaintained file systems, though.
> 
> > +		return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(inode));
> 
> This caught my eye.  Surely we can do better :).  It seems to happen a
> few times in the patches, the instance in this patch was the first that
> I noticed.

Yeah. The above obviously *should* be the same as

	return inode;

apart from a few casts. But if the casts matter, there's something else 
wrong.

		Linus
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