From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 04:19:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 04:19:37 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:22795 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 04:19:31 -0500 Message-ID: <002501c1936e$974d0f60$010411ac@local> From: "Manfred Spraul" To: "Neil Brown" Cc: , In-Reply-To: <3C32260E.CEADDF59@colorfullife.com> <15410.35800.154586.201540@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Subject: Re: [RFC] event cleanup, part 2 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:19:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Neil Brown" > On Tuesday January 1, manfred@colorfullife.com wrote: > > Linus merged the first part of my patches that remove > > 'event' into 2.5.2-pre3. > > > > Attached is the second patch. > > > > patch 1: remove all event users except readdir(). > > Merged. > > Not quite. ext2 and ext3 (At least) use event to set i_generation to > a pseudo-random number, and that still seems to be so in 2.5.2-pre6. > What do you plan to do with that usage of event? > Possibly replacing it with net_random or similar would be fine. > I've replaced i_generation with a random number in ext2, that change is part of 2.5.2-pre6. I've sent the patch to ext3 to the maintainers. -- Manfred