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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:33:35 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 6/8] inode-diet: Move i_cindex from struct inode to struct file
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:20:09AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> inode.i_cindex isn't initialized until the character device is opened
> anyway, and there are far more struct inodes in memory than there are
> struct file.  So move the cindex field to file.f_cindex, and change
> the one(!) user of cindex to use file pointer, which is in fact simpler.

NAK.  Please, take it to the union into cdev part.