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From: Philip Wernersbach <philip.wernersbach@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Richard Holden <aciddeath@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2/3 as ext4
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:42:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <def8f7750912161642v16dd7bbflaf78bd0d231af68d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091207190947.GF27692@thunk.org>

> Why the open coded strcmp?
strcmp is a C standard library function, not a C builtin, thus it
can't be used in the kernel.

> I would put these 2 conditionals into a single if ||, and consolidate
> the type_page setting into 1 place, then you limit where you handle the
> ext2/ext3 filesystems inside of ext4.
Thanks, that's a good idea.

> (I believe patch was whitespace damaged).
Oops! It was, sorry about that.

> Add yourself to the CREDITS; we don't use comments for changelog these days.
Okay.

> Ouch?
I don't see the problem, please elaborate.

> Can you use memcmp, instead?
No, it's a C standard library function.

> Actualy strcmp() may be appropriate.
It would, but that's also a C standard library function.

> Here's a much cleaner patch which achieves the same goal...
Thanks Ted, that is much cleaner, although I think it would be better
to have separate KCONFIG options for mounting ext2 as ext4 and ext3 as
ext4. I can code this in when I get some time.

Thanks,
Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-17  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-02  1:30 Philip Wernersbach
2009-12-02  1:58 ` Richard Holden
2009-12-06  9:51 ` Pavel Machek
2009-12-07 19:09 ` tytso
2009-12-17  0:42   ` Philip Wernersbach [this message]
2009-12-22  1:14     ` Robert Hancock
2009-12-27  7:56   ` Dmitry Torokhov

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