linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/32] IGET: Stop EXT2 from using iget() and read

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Message-ID: <20071005120529.GA28985@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:05:29 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/32] IGET: Stop EXT2 from using iget() and read_inode() [try #2]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:57:08PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Stop the EXT2 filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
> ext2_read_inode() with ext2_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
> ext2_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
> instead of an inode in the event of an error.
> 
> ext2_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
> instead of EINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>

							- Ted
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