linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] fs/super.c: Why alloc_super use a static variable default

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:43:18 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	rae l <crquan@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fs/super.c: Why alloc_super use a static variable default_op?

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...
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