Re: [PATCH] Son of Unbork (1 of 3)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 12:34:25 EST


On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> > Patch 1 adds alloc_super and destroy_super methods to struct file_system. A
> Vetoed.

To elaborate: there is no reason why private stuff couldn't be allocated
by ext2_fill_super() and freed by ext2_put_super(). What's more, there
is no reason why it would break for any other fs. IOW, new methods are
not necessary. Now apply Occam's Razor.

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