Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

[Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>]

Hello,

On Friday 16 September 2005 21:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> more trivial review comments ontop of the previous one, after looking
> at things:
>
>  - please never use list_for_each in new code but list_for_each_entry
>  - never use kernel_thread in new code but kthread_*

done.  thanks Christoph.

>  - do_sendfile duplicates the common sendfile code.  why aren't you
>    using the generic code?

I removed reiser4 version of do_sendfile and replaced it by 
generic_file_sendfile() under reiser4 context.
loop device still works.

>  - there's tons of really useless assertation of the category
>    discussed in the last thread
>  - there's tons of deep pagecache messing in there.  normally this
>    shouldn't be a filesystem, and if this breaks because of VM changes
> you'll have to fix it, don't complain..
>  - you still do your plugin mess in ->readpage.  honsetly could you
>    please explain why mpage_readpage{,s} don't work for you?
>  - (issues with the read/write path already addresses in the previous
> thread) - looking at ->d_count in ->release is wrong
>  - still has security plugin stuff that duplicates LSM
>  - why do underlying attributes change when VFS inode doesn't change?
>    if not please rip out most of getattr_common
>  - link_common S_ISDIR doesn't make sense, VFS takes care of it
>  - please use the generic_readlink infrastructure
>
> additinoal comment is that the code is very messy, very different
> from normal kernel style, full of indirections and thus hard to read.
> real review will take some time.
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Thanks,
Alex.