Re: [PATCH 07/30] IGET: Stop BEFS from using iget() andread_inode()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 14:20:36 EST




On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> befs_lookup, which the above gem is from, returns a dentry *.

Ahh, ok. Then it actually makes sense. Although I'd prefer it if people
planned on writing code like that more along the lines of

error = PTR_ERR(inode);
if (IS_ERR(inode)
return ERR_PTR(error);

because let's face it, the compiler can turn this into nice code, and
humans can read it much better even if it's got an "unnecessary" extra
variable etc..

Linus
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