linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/31] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS from using iget() and read

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Date:	Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:13:36 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/31] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS from using iget() and read_inode() [try #5]

David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Not completely trivial - the ino_t -> unsigned long conversion needs to be
> > propagated fairly widely in there.
> 
> I'll just make it unsigned long.  That's what iget() took as the inode number
> parameter type, so it can't behave any differently as a first guess.

On the other hand, __vxfs_iget() takes ino_t, so that's the right thing to do
in this case.

David
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