[PATCH] hpfs: hpfs iget locking cleanup
Killed the nightmares in hpfs iget handling. Since in some (fairly frequent) cases hpfs_read_inode() could avoid any IO (basically, lookup hitting a native HPFS regular file can get all data from directory entry) hpfs had a flag passed to that sucker. Said flag had been protected by a semaphore lookalike made out of spit and duct-tape and callers of iget looked like hpfs_lock_iget(sb, flag); result = iget(sb, ino); hpfs_unlock_iget(sb); Since now we are calling hpfs_read_inode() directly (note that calling it without hpfs_lock_iget() would simply break) we can forget all that crap and get rid of the flag - caller knows what it wants to call. BTW, that had killed one of the last sleep_on() users in fs/*/*.
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