linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/17] fs: Clean up inode reference counting

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Message-ID: <20101016170957.GB3240@amd>
Date:	Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:09:58 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] fs: Clean up inode reference counting

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:14:11PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:55:15PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:15:20PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Besides moving this much earlier in the series as mentioned before
> > > the most important thing is giving the helpers a different name as
> > > the iget name is already used for a different purpose, even if
> > > got rid of the original iget and only have iget_locked.
> > 
> > It's a bit of a mess. We also have __iget. I don't care much about
> > the name though so I'll see what you've chosen in future posts.
> > 
> > I'll see how it looks to move earlier in the series, shouldn't
> > be a big problem.
> 
> Dave has sorted out the naming mess quite nicely in his repost.

Pity we can't use get/put but as I said, no big deal. I'll pick
up those names.

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