Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] Clean up fs.h union for ext2

Pavel Machek
2002-01-03T09:57:55Z

Hi!

> Why not just declare ext2_i like the following? It _should_ work:
>
> static inline struct ext2_inode_info *ext2_i(const struct inode *inode)
> {
> return &(inode->u.ext2_inode_info);
> }
>
>
> Minor nit: this is already done for the ext3 code, but it looks like:
>
> #define EXT3_I (&((inode)->u.ext3_i))
>
> We already have the EXT3_SB, so I thought I would be consistent with it:
>
> #define EXT3_SB (&((sb)->u.ext3_sb))
>
> Do people like the inline version better? Either way, I would like to make
> the ext2 and ext3 codes more similar, rather than less.

Maybe 2.5 is time to merge ext2 and ext3?
Pavel

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