linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/30] IGET: Stop BEFS from using iget() and read

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Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/30] IGET: Stop BEFS from using iget() and
 read_inode()



On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> befs_lookup, which the above gem is from, returns a dentry *.

Ahh, ok. Then it actually makes sense. Although I'd prefer it if people 
planned on writing code like that more along the lines of

	error = PTR_ERR(inode);
	if (IS_ERR(inode)
		return ERR_PTR(error);

because let's face it, the compiler can turn this into nice code, and 
humans can read it much better even if it's got an "unnecessary" extra 
variable etc..

			Linus
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