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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] unlink: monitor i_nlink
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:15:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608121615.47877.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809112740.a964e5a2.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 20:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> struct inode {
>         ...
>         union {
>                 unsigned int i_nlink;
>                 unsigned int i_nlink_use_the_accessors_please;
>         }
>         ...
> };
> 
> then, when everything in-tree is migrated, remove `i_nlink'.

You can also mark a union member deprecated:

struct inode {
        ...
        union {
                unsigned int __deprecated i_nlink;
                unsigned int i_nlink_use_the_accessors_please;
        }
        ...
};

So gcc will warn about any newly introduced users.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-12 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-09 16:57 [PATCH 0/6] read-only bind mount prep work Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] prepare for write access checks: collapse if() Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 17:18     ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create() Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] unlink: monitor i_nlink Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 17:17     ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 18:27       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-12 14:15         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] clean up OCFS2 nlink handling Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 19:15     ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-10  8:07       ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-08-10 19:06         ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-11  9:38           ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] monitor zeroing of i_nlink Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:14   ` Christoph Hellwig

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