On February 25, 2002 06:24 pm, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > This three patch set completes the removal of ext2-specific includes from
> > fs.h. When this is done, your kernel will compile a little faster, the Ext2
> > source will be organized a little better, and then infamous fs.h super_block
> > union will no longer hurt your eyes. When every filesystem has been changed
> > in a similar way, fs.h will finally be generic, in-memory super_blocks will be
> > somewhat smaller, and the kernel will compile quite a lot faster. And peace
> > will come once more to Middle-Earth. (I made that last part up.)
> >
> > Patch 1 adds alloc_super and destroy_super methods to struct file_system. A
>
> Vetoed.
Thanks for the eloquent and informative response.
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