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SubjectRe: recent names_cachep change



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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