Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:47:57 -0700 From: Hiten Pandya <hmp@FreeBSD.ORG> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: des@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VFS: C99 sparse format for struct vfsops Message-ID: <20030602014757.GA99626@perrin.int.nxad.com>
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Gang, 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. Just like phk@ said in his mail for cdevsw; likewise, we wil be able to add new vfsops without having to hunt down each driver to match. Except this patch was "not" generated automatically. While there, I have also nuked all the prototypes for the vfsops, and replaced them with the typedefs, available in sys/mount.h, i.e. vfs_<op>_t. If this patch gets approved by some senior mac-daddies of FreeBSD, I can kindly ask my mentor, DES, to commit this for me. 8-) The patch: http://people.FreeBSD.ORG/~hmp/patches/vfs-voodoo.patch My mentor, and some other developers on secret IRC channel have given this a cursory glance. I am composing my email from a kernel running with this patch -- no rabbits, or hard disks were harmed in the making of this patch. Cheers. -- Hiten (hmp@FreeBSD.ORG)
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