From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/23] init: open code setting up stdin/stdout/stderr Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:46:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20200727054625.GA1241@lst.de> References: <20200714190427.4332-1-hch@lst.de> <20200714190427.4332-19-hch@lst.de> <20200727030534.GD795125@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200727030534.GD795125@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Song Liu , Linus Torvalds , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:05:34AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:04:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Don't rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for ksys_open to work, but > > instead open a struct file for /dev/console and then install it as FD > > 0/1/2 manually. > > I really hate that one. Every time we exposed the internal details to > the fucking early init code, we paid for that afterwards. And this > goes over the top wrt the level of details being exposed. > > _IF_ you want to keep that thing, move it to fs/file.c, with dire comment > re that being very special shite for init and likely cause of subsequent > trouble whenever anything gets changed, a gnat farts somewhere, etc. Err, while I'm all for keeping internals internal, fd_install and get_unused_fd_flags are exported routines with tons of users of this pattern all over.