Re: [PATCH 0/2] kill bhv_vnode_t

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:53:17PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Dave complained today that the fate of bhv_vnode_t isn't entirely clear
> >yet, so I've prepared these two patches to kill it in a minimally
> >invasive way.  While it causes churn in a lot of areas it does not
> >affect the generated code at all.
> >
> >  
> I know a bunch of stuff has gone in that is not very portable, which is 
> fine since
> they can be dealt with individually since they are not that intrusive.
> 
> Changing bhv_vnode_t to struct inode throughout the code is a pretty big
> change and would be a major pain to work around.

Have you actually looed at the patches?  The only places where we use
struct inode outside of linux-2.6/ are:

 - xfs_finish_reclaim:

	Distangles the xfs_inode from Linux inode.  Per defintion
	OS-specific.

 - xfs_sync_inodes:

	 Sync code that is quite OS specific.  Dave will move it
	 to linux-2.6/ pretty soon.

 - quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c:

	Similar sync code.

 - xfs_acl.c:

	ACL code with some OS dependencies, and pretty dead with my
	pending patch to use the generic ACL code.

And no, it's not actually a big change.