[PATCH] 2.3.41-pre2 - cleanup file_operations structs

[James Manning]

[ Sunday, January 23, 2000 ] James Manning wrote:
> Several factors went into making this patch:
> 
>  - Chuck Lever's inspiration from his work which helped make vm_opertions
>    structs name-assigned using gcc's initializer extension. (by necessity :)
>  - Alsa possibly adding some file_operations struct members soon
>  - future cache optimizations may well want to move around members
>    so most commonly-access stay in the first cache line (or at least
>    functions that tend to get called together are in the same line)
>  - Lots of #ifdef's in code just to shove in an extra NULL depending
>    on kernel version
>  - Makes code more readable
>  - Cuts down a large # of lines from the kernel

[snip]

I think it got eaten along the way to vger/funet/whatever
so I'll just put the url here:

http://sublogic.com/patches/file_operations.patch

Again, it's against 2.3.41-pre2

Feedback would be very welcome... inode_operations has an even larger
case than file_operations (same arguments) but I wanted some feedback
before tackling that one :)

James
-- 
Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development

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