If you're soliciting opinions, I think I tend to prefer the feel of the code paths after the changes. I don't know the benefits of the change are worth the risk in unmaintained file systems, though.
> + return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(inode)); This caught my eye. Surely we can do better :). It seems to happen a few times in the patches, the instance in this patch was the first that I noticed. - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html