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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...>

To: David Howells <dhowells@...>

Cc: <torvalds@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #4]

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 12:48 pm

On Friday 12 October 2007 19:07, David Howells wrote:
quoted text> Hi Linus,
>
> Here's a set of patches that remove all calls to iget() and all
> read_inode() functions.  They should be removed for two reasons: firstly
> they don't lend themselves to good error handling, and secondly their
> presence is a temptation for code outside a filesystem to call iget() to
> access inodes within that filesystem.

Is there any particular reason not to push these through -mm?
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[PATCH 00/31] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #4], David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/31] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #4], Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 11, 12:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/31] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #4], David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 6:58 am)

[PATCH 31/31] IGET: Remove iget() and the read_inode() super..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 30/31] IGET: Stop HPPFS from using iget() and read_in..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 29/31] IGET: Stop HOSTFS from using iget() and read_i..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 28/31] IGET: Stop OPENPROMFS from using iget() and re..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 27/31] IGET: Stop UFS from using iget() and read_inod..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 26/31] IGET: Stop the SYSV filesystem from using iget..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 25/31] IGET: Stop ROMFS from using iget() and read_in..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 24/31] IGET: Stop QNX4 from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 23/31] IGET: Stop PROCFS from using iget() and read_i..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 22/31] IGET: Stop the MINIX filesystem from using ige..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:09 am)

[PATCH 21/31] IGET: Stop JFS from using iget() and read_inod..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 20/31] IGET: Stop JFFS2 from using iget() and read_in..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 19/31] IGET: Stop ISOFS from using read_inode() [try ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 18/31] IGET: Stop HFSPLUS from using iget() and read_..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 17/31] IGET: Stop FUSE from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 13/31] IGET: Stop EXT3 from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 14/31] IGET: Stop EXT4 from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 16/31] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS from using iget() and read..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 15/31] IGET: Stop FAT from using iget() and read_inod..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 12/31] IGET: Stop EXT2 from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 11/31] IGET: Stop EFS from using iget() and read_inod..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 10/31] IGET: Stop CIFS from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:08 am)

[PATCH 09/31] IGET: Stop BFS from using iget() and read_inod..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 08/31] IGET: Stop BEFS from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 07/31] IGET: Stop autofs from using iget() and read_i..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 06/31] IGET: Stop AFFS from using iget() and read_ino..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 05/31] IGET: Use iget_failed() in GFS2 [try #4], David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 02/31] Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_C..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 04/31] IGET: Use iget_failed() in AFS [try #4], David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 03/31] IGET: Introduce a function to register iget fa..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

[PATCH 01/31] Add an ERR_CAST() macro to complement ERR_PTR ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 5:07 am)

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