From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Move fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt comment into a source file
so that people will realize that it exists and can update
it as needed.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/generic.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt | 14 --------------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- linux-next-20081125.orig/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ linux-next-20081125/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -307,6 +307,21 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(proc_inum_lock);
/*
* Return an inode number between PROC_DYNAMIC_FIRST and
* 0xffffffff, or zero on failure.
+ *
+ * Current inode allocations in the proc-fs (hex-numbers):
+ *
+ * 00000000 reserved
+ * 00000001-00000fff static entries (goners)
+ * 001 root-ino
+ *
+ * 00001000-00001fff unused
+ * 0001xxxx-7fffxxxx pid-dir entries for pid 1-7fff
+ * 80000000-efffffff unused
+ * f0000000-ffffffff dynamic entries
+ *
+ * Goal:
+ * Once we split the thing into several virtual filesystems,
+ * we will get rid of magical ranges (and this comment, BTW).
*/
static unsigned int get_inode_number(void)
{
--- linux-next-20081125.orig/fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Current inode allocations in the proc-fs (hex-numbers):
-
- 00000000 reserved
- 00000001-00000fff static entries (goners)
- 001 root-ino
-
- 00001000-00001fff unused
- 0001xxxx-7fffxxxx pid-dir entries for pid 1-7fff
- 80000000-efffffff unused
- f0000000-ffffffff dynamic entries
-
-Goal:
- a) once we'll split the thing into several virtual filesystems we
- will get rid of magical ranges (and this file, BTW).
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