linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/30] IGET: Stop JFS from using iget() and read

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Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:44:23 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, viro@....linux.org.uk, torvalds@...l.org,
	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	JFS Discussion <jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/30] IGET: Stop JFS from using iget() and read_inode()

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 14:11 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Stop the JFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
> jfs_read_inode() with jfs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
> jfs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
> instead of an inode in the event of an error.
> 
> jfs_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
> instead of EINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
> 
>  fs/jfs/inode.c     |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
>  fs/jfs/jfs_inode.h |    2 +-
>  fs/jfs/namei.c     |   34 ++++++++++++++--------------------
>  fs/jfs/super.c     |   15 +++++++++------
>  4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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