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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CIFS] [PATCH] consistently use smb_buf_length as be32 for cifs (try 3)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:51:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110318185154.GA8028@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikqrGxG1RgUwFGNhoyyLc8ARiVvqQ8ULio8pz4f@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:17:24PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> If others feel strongly about this, I don't mind changing it as
> Christoph suggests but
> - to samba people, "incrementing the rfc1001 length" would be more
> recognizable (than opencoding the be32_add_cpu macro), and the
> function name was
> actually Jeff's suggestion which I liked.

I don't mind the rfc1001 length per se.  What's totally braindead about
this is having an absolutely trivial wrapper for incrementing a field,
which has a different name than the field it increments.

If you feel strongly about the rfc1001 length just rename the field.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-18 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-17 16:41 [CIFS] [PATCH] consistently use smb_buf_length as be32 for cifs (try 3) Steve French
2011-03-17 16:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-17 17:17   ` Steve French
2011-03-18 18:51     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20110318185154.GA8028-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-19 21:17         ` Jeff Layton
2011-03-20  3:05           ` Steve French
     [not found]             ` <AANLkTi==ojddc91ruaLHJvY85_tHvNe1J+YVZi7fsj8n-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-20 13:41               ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                 ` <20110320094121.39be555c-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-20 14:01                   ` Steve French

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