VFS: C99 sparse format for struct vfsops

[Paul Richards]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:04:11AM -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:17:03AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Hiten Pandya wrote:
> > > My fingers have been itching to do this since the day phk@ planted this
> > > idea in my brain (re: cdevsw initialisations).  Basically, it changes
> > > the vfsops to use C99 sparse format, just like cdevsw.  It removes a lot
> > > of junk default initialisations, and duplication.
> > 
> > I really dislike the changes to vfs_init().  Specifically, it's
> > not the overhead, so much as it's the implied side effects.
> 
> 	And how many times is vfc_register() called?  Its not in the
> 	patch of an I/O operation or anything.  Its just a mount time
> 	overhead which will go through -- a one time thing.
> 
> > Consider this going forward: someone adds a new VFSOP to the
> > list of allowable VFSOPs, and the vfs_init() doesn't have any
> > specific code for it.

You should look at kobj, it's precisely this sort of dynamic
dispatching that it was designed to support.

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