linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] ext2: remove inode constructor

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 11:46:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sct@...hat.com, adilger@...sterfs.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ext2: remove inode constructor

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Ok. I would appreciate any kind of heads-up when you're ready to eat
> these patches again. ;-)

If you have some more spare cycles: Try to extend this 
to get rid of the inode constructors in the other fs as well?

(And if you have even more time and are touching the call sites anyways: 
Kill off SLAB_CONSTRUCTOR_CTOR. It is always set and has no purpose in life left).

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