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Message-ID: <11826.1191328350@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:32:30 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
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()
Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net> wrote:
> /* haha, continuing the fine tradition of terrible names in this api.. */
> static inline void *PTR_PTR(void *err_ptr) {
> BUG_ON(!IS_ERR(err_ptr) || !err_ptr);
> return err_ptr;
> }
How about ERR_CAST() instead? Or maybe CAST_ERR()?
struct dentry *blah(...)
{
struct inode *inode;
inode = thing(...);
if (IS_ERR(inode))
return ERR_CAST(inode);
}
Where ERR_CAST is defined as:
static inline void *ERR_CAST(const void *error)
{
return (void *) x;
}
David
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