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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS: apply coding standards to fs/ioctl.c
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:55:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030095548.GB22413@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d47a5d10710281957g1e423c1q6f45415d7465d90@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:57:47PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > While you're at it, it's probably worth splitting this out into
> > a small helper function.
> 
> Why? Is the same pattern called from more than one place?

Becauase it's a lot more readable.  ioctl subcommands are invidividual
functionality, and separating them out into small self-contained functions
makes the code a lot more readable.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27 23:10 [PATCH] 0/3 fs/ioctl.c coding style, rename vfs_ioctl/do_ioctl Erez Zadok
2007-10-27 23:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] VFS: apply coding standards to fs/ioctl.c Erez Zadok
2007-10-28 14:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-28 18:05     ` Erez Zadok
2007-10-30  9:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-29  2:57     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-10-30  9:55       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-10-27 23:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names Erez Zadok
2007-10-28 14:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-27 23:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] Unionfs: use vfs_ioctl Erez Zadok

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