> > Which means, that that pointer dereference will be done once instead > > of in each caller, no? It's a gain (albeit a small one) is in code > > cleanliness, and possibly in generated code size. > > Again, it doesn't make anyhing simpler. It might be a cleanup at best. OK, that depends what you call simpler :) Yes it is a cleanup. Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html