Linux内核open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)中inode不是多余吗？

[fireyyouth]

inode可以通过file获得，而且struct file_operations 中其它成员函数也没有inode参数

[lbaihao]

inode 译成中文就是索引节点。每个存储设备或存储设备的分区（存储设备是硬盘、软盘、U盘 ... ... ）被格式化为文件系统后，应该有两部份，一部份是inode，另一部份是Block，Block是用来存储数据用的。而inode呢，就是用来存储这些数据的信息，这些信息包括文件大小、属主、归属的用户组、读写权限等。inode为每个文件进行信息索引，所以就有了inode的数值。操作系统根据指令，能通过inode值最快的找到相对应的文件。 可参考 ：http://blog.csdn.net/lbaihao/article/details/52950926

[nswcfd]

有用处啊，有些fs的实现，inode是某个更大的结构的一部分，open的时候可以使用container_of获取包含结构，比如socket相关的inode。

[Wenxy1]

引用 楼主 fireyyouth 的回复:

inode可以通过file获得，而且struct file_operations 中其它成员函数也没有inode参数

struct file_operations {
	struct module *owner;
	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);  /* 看 file结构体 */
	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
	long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
	long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
	int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
	int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *);
	int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
	int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *);
	int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int datasync);
	int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
	int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
	int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
	ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
	unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
	int (*check_flags)(int);
	int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
	ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int);
	ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
	int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **);
	long (*fallocate)(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
			  loff_t len);
};

struct file {
	/*
	 * fu_list becomes invalid after file_free is called and queued via
	 * fu_rcuhead for RCU freeing
	 */
	union {
		struct list_head	fu_list;
		struct rcu_head 	fu_rcuhead;
	} f_u;
	struct path		f_path; /* 看path结构体 */
#define f_dentry	f_path.dentry
#define f_vfsmnt	f_path.mnt
	const struct file_operations	*f_op;
	}
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struct path {
	struct vfsmount *mnt;
	struct dentry *dentry; /* 看dentry 结构体 */
};

struct dentry {
	/* RCU lookup touched fields */
	unsigned int d_flags;		/* protected by d_lock */
	seqcount_t d_seq;		/* per dentry seqlock */
	struct hlist_bl_node d_hash;	/* lookup hash list */
	struct dentry *d_parent;	/* parent directory */
	struct qstr d_name;
	struct inode *d_inode;		/* Where the name belongs to - NULL is
					 * negative */ /* inod结构体来了， ：-） */
	unsigned char d_iname[DNAME_INLINE_LEN];	/* small names */

	/* Ref lookup also touches following */
	unsigned int d_count;		/* protected by d_lock */
	spinlock_t d_lock;		/* per dentry lock */
	const struct dentry_operations *d_op;
	struct super_block *d_sb;	/* The root of the dentry tree */
	unsigned long d_time;		/* used by d_revalidate */
	void *d_fsdata;			/* fs-specific data */

	struct list_head d_lru;		/* LRU list */
	/*
	 * d_child and d_rcu can share memory
	 */
	union {
		struct list_head d_child;	/* child of parent list */
	 	struct rcu_head d_rcu;
	} d_u;
	struct list_head d_subdirs;	/* our children */
	struct list_head d_alias;	/* inode alias list */
};

/* ps , 推荐source code软件看、写c/c++源代码 */

[ENGLISH_HHZ]

怎么可能是没用的，只是你现在的需求用不到而已