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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: rae l <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fs/super.c: Why alloc_super use a static variable default_op?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:43:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070725064318.GD27237@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070725063953.GC27237@ftp.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:39:53AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> For superblocks and inodes that is different - if we go looking for a method,
> we *are* going to hit the method table anyway; it's not going to be NULL in
> anything resembling a normal case.  So having the pointer to table initialized

"it" == "pointer to method table", of course.  Pointers _in_ method table
might very well be NULL...

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25  3:48 [RFC] fs/super.c: Why alloc_super use a static variable default_op? rae l
2007-07-25  4:14 ` Al Viro
2007-07-25  4:29   ` rae l
2007-07-25  4:37     ` Al Viro
2007-07-25  5:21       ` rae l
2007-07-25  6:39         ` Al Viro
2007-07-25  6:43           ` Al Viro [this message]

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