Re: reiser4 plugins

Hans Reiser
2005-06-24T08:33:19Z

Lincoln Dale wrote:

>
>> Now, if his target is reduced to whether we can eliminate a function
>> indirection, and whether we can review the code together and see if it
>> is easy to extend plugins and pluginids to other filesystems by finding
>> places to make it more generic and accepting of per filesystem plugins,
>> especially if it is not tied to going into 2.6.13, well, that is the
>> conversation I would have liked to have had.
>>
>>
>>
> fantastic - some common ground.
> any reason WHY there has to be an abstraction of 'pluginid' when in
> theory VFS operations can already provide the necessary abstraction on
> a per-object basis?

VFS supplies instances, plugins are classes. If a language can
instantiate an object, that does not eliminate the value of being able
to create classes.

Does it make sense to you now?