Hi,
Can you tell me if there is a reason that the "opaque" argument of iget4()
doesn't get passed to read_inode() ? If the answer is simply that nobody
has sent a patch yet, then I've got a patch here which I'll forward to
you. I wondered if this was perhaps something scheduled for change in 2.5
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
Can you tell me if there is a reason that the "opaque" argument of iget4()
doesn't get passed to read_inode() ? If the answer is simply that nobody
has sent a patch yet, then I've got a patch here which I'll forward to
you. I wondered if
Hi,
Thanks for your quick response.
[patch and explanation snipped]
The point being: allow filesystems to use whatever means they find convenient
for filling the inode. All we really need from icache is an analog of
iget() that would leave new struct inode locked, recognizable as new and
Alexander Viro wrote:
In all fairness, -read_inode() should not be a method. Correct way to
deal with that would be along the lines
[...]
+ if (inode-i_state I_NEW) {
+ ext2_read_inode(inode);
+ unlock_new_inode(inode);
+
