Re: [PATCH 00/31] Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #4]

On Friday 12 October 2007 19:07, David Howells wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Here's a set of patches that remove all calls to iget() and all
> read_inode() functions.  They should be removed for two reasons: firstly
> they don't lend themselves to good error handling, and secondly their
> presence is a temptation for code outside a filesystem to call iget() to
> access inodes within that filesystem.

Is there any particular reason not to push these through -mm?
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