Le Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:12:09 +0530, "Manish Katiyar" <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > In kernel 2.6 there was a change of the union member field of inode > structure . So code which used previously used inode->u.generic_ip to > store its private information should use the new field > inode->i_private. I found references some sites that this change was > done primarily to reduce the VFS inode structure size. > > Any other reasons of doing this ?? It's explained in the patch, at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/2/168. The reason is that everybody was using u.generic_ip, but nobody added more fields to the union, so the union was useless. It's basically a cleanup. Something kernel hackers can do because the Linux kernel internal interface is not stable: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx, http://thomas.enix.org Jabber, thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxx Toulibre, http://www.toulibre.org - APRIL, http://www.april.org Fingerprint : 0BE1 4CF3 CEA4 AC9D CC6E 1624 F653 CB30 98D3 F7A7
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