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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] Re: [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out [17/70]
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:25:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201192555.GD3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165000744.1194.89.camel@xenon.msp.redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:19:04PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:15 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > >From 539e5d6b7ae8612c0393fe940d2da5b591318d3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:07:05 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out
> > 
> > Everywhere this was called, a struct gfs2_inode was available,
> > but despite that, it was always called with a struct gfs2_dinode
> > as an argument. By making this change it paves the way to start
> > eliminating fields duplicated between the kernel's struct inode
> > and the struct gfs2_dinode.
> More pointless code churn.
> 
> This only makes sense once the file system is working 
> and we have time to do this type of cleanup on against
> a stable and TESTED code base.

Bzzert.  Cleaner code is easier to _get_ stable.  "Keep it ucking fugly
until everyone stops looking at it out of sheer disgust" is a bad idea.



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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
	cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out [17/70]
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:25:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201192555.GD3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165000744.1194.89.camel@xenon.msp.redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:19:04PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:15 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > >From 539e5d6b7ae8612c0393fe940d2da5b591318d3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:07:05 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out
> > 
> > Everywhere this was called, a struct gfs2_inode was available,
> > but despite that, it was always called with a struct gfs2_dinode
> > as an argument. By making this change it paves the way to start
> > eliminating fields duplicated between the kernel's struct inode
> > and the struct gfs2_dinode.
> More pointless code churn.
> 
> This only makes sense once the file system is working 
> and we have time to do this type of cleanup on against
> a stable and TESTED code base.

Bzzert.  Cleaner code is easier to _get_ stable.  "Keep it ucking fugly
until everyone stops looking at it out of sheer disgust" is a bad idea.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30 12:15 [Cluster-devel] [GFS2] Change argument of gfs2_dinode_out [17/70] Steven Whitehouse
2006-11-30 12:15 ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-12-01 19:19 ` [Cluster-devel] " Russell Cattelan
2006-12-01 19:19   ` Russell Cattelan
2006-12-01 19:25   ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-12-01 19:25     ` Al Viro
2006-12-01 20:52     ` [Cluster-devel] " Russell Cattelan
2006-12-01 20:52       ` Russell Cattelan
2006-12-01 21:08       ` Al Viro
2006-12-01 21:08         ` Al Viro
2006-12-01 23:29         ` Russell Cattelan
2006-12-01 23:29           ` Russell Cattelan
2006-12-02  1:10           ` Al Viro
2006-12-02  1:10             ` Al Viro
2006-12-03 19:06             ` Russell Cattelan
2006-12-03 19:54               ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-03 22:44                 ` Alan
2006-12-02 11:40           ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-02 11:40             ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-03 20:21             ` Rik van Riel
2006-12-03 20:21               ` Rik van Riel
2006-12-04 10:05   ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-12-04 10:05     ` Steven Whitehouse

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