Re: [patch 6/8] inode-diet: Move i_cindex from struct inode to struct file

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:53:39PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> inode.i_cindex isn't initialized until the character device is opened
> anyway, and there are far more struct inodes in memory than there are
> struct file.  So move the cindex field to file.f_cindex, and change
> the one(!) user of cindex to use file pointer, which is in fact simpler.

I think you got a pretty clear NACK from Al on this one.

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