Re: recent names_cachep change

From: Alexander Viro (aviro@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 16:34:31 EDT

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    On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    > At least move it into dcache init, and consider the name cache to be a
    > higher-level thing. I dislike the way init/main.c is always expanded, and
    > I want to _stop_ everybody always addign stuff to init/main.c. It ends up
    > both ugly and a patch nightmare.
    >
    > For example, I like how people can add filesystems without having to touch
    > _any_ generic files any more. Ther used to be all these things with
    > fs/filesystems.c etc that had to be in sync.
    >
    > I don't think init/main.c should need to care how the VFS layer does its
    > name cache initialization. All of this should probably be moved into
    > "vfs_init()", and none of this random collection of random init routines
    > in one long list...

    Fair enough. vfs_init() sounds reasonable. Probable place for it, though...
    How about fs/filesystems.c?

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