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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: marcin.slusarz@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: add roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to_blocks helper functions
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:52:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090422145255.1e85253e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240436400.7356.39.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:00 -0500
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > roundup_to_blocksize() isn't a terribly good name, IMO.  The name
> > conveys no sense of what the function returns.  It _sounds_ like it
> > returns a "block size".  But it doesn't - it returns a loff_t. 
> > round_up_file_offset_to_block_size() is a bit long though :(
> 
> Is round_up_to_block() any better?  I don't think the trailing "size"
> helps.

dunno.

If the function is documented and if its arg is a loff_t rather than a
bare ull then I guess that makes things sufficiently clear that we
don't have to fuss about its name too much.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-19 18:42 [PATCH] fs: add roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to_blocks helper functions Marcin Slusarz
2009-04-19 18:51 ` [PATCH] filesystems: start using roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to_blocks Marcin Slusarz
2009-04-20 19:07   ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-04-20 20:22     ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-04-22 21:10 ` [PATCH] fs: add roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to_blocks helper functions Andrew Morton
2009-04-22 21:40   ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-04-22 21:52     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-26 17:21   ` Marcin Slusarz

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