Re: kill i_dev

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:12:10 +0100 (MET)


From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Yes, I looked at that but concluded that someone (you?)
> had added the assignment just to preserve the guarantee
> previously given by get_empty_inode() at the moment it
> was replaced by new_inode(). But it is superfluous, I think.

Existing userland doesn't, though.

I saw that you hit fuser last year, but this is 2.5.
Any other examples?
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