Re: [RFC PATCHES] Re: Is configfs the right solution forconfiguration based fs?

From: Joel Becker
Date: Fri Jun 20 2008 - 02:57:48 EST


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:19:10PM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote:
> Looks great, thx :-). I'll convert some of my stuff over to this
> interface and see how it flies in the real world.

Excellent. What is your stuff, btw? Got code? Love to see it.

> ISTR when I did this I kept the old semantics and used ERR_PTR and
> friends if things went pear-shaped. Given the small number of in-tree
> users needing to be moved over, a more intrusive change for the sake of
> a cleaner API like you've done is probably a good thing anyway :-)

Yeah, I like this better than ERR_PTR.
If you like the macros, I'll try to make the next merge window
as well. So let me know.

joel

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