Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

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On Tue, 7 November 2006 10:56:06 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> Here's a more involved (again, untested) patch. I turned new_inode into
> a wrapper for a new function (new_inode_autonum). If the autonum arg is
> set, then we should get back a unique i_ino.

A good start.  You didn't convert any callers yet, so I did a quick
poll.  Turned out that out of 76 callers 37 explicitly set i_ino, 1
(fat) calls iunique itself and 38 look at first glance as if they
didn't set i_ino.  xfs and jfs were in the latter category, which just
proved I didn't look too closely.

Anyway, the distribution is fairly even, so I agree with your choice
of default behaviour.

Jörn

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