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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Erik van der Kouwe <vdkouwe@cs.vu.nl>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fam Zheng <famcool@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per block depends on block size
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:01:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100527160114.GH31073@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100526215442.GB3316@quack.suse.cz>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:54:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > -	} else if ((block -= 7) < 256) {
> > -		offsets[n++] = 7;
> > +	} else if ((block -= DIRCOUNT) < INDIRCOUNT(sb)) {
>   This modification of 'block' in the if condition is a blatant violation
> of the kernel coding style.

The hell it is. [...said the guy who'd written it that way in the first place]
It _is_ idiomatic C for that kind of thing ("we've got several adjacent ranges,
find which one had we hit and how far from its start").

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 10:03 [PATCH] fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per block depends on block size Erik van der Kouwe
2010-05-26 21:54 ` Jan Kara
2010-05-27 16:01   ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-05-27 17:11   ` Erik van der Kouwe
2010-05-27 17:17     ` Jan Kara
2010-05-27  4:35 ` Al Viro

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