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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Timo Lindhorst <lindhors@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: MTD list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] UBI: Fix counting of ec value
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:38:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171280290.17314.23.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D045FC.7090902@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:48 +0100, Timo Lindhorst wrote: 
> > So why have you moved this memory allocation here?
> Actually I have not moved up the allocation, but moved down the
> 'if (unlikely(ec > UBI_MAX_ERASECOUNTER)) { ... ' block, since we need 
> to know the new ec value before we can do this test.

OK, fine, just free the memory there.

> > What's the point in the new 'ret' variable? Why ec += err does not work?
> I just thought adding an error code to a counter seems odd. Do you 
> prefer this way?

Well, it's anyway better then a distinct variable IMO. Moreover, it is
used like this across the UBI code, so just assume it is UBI style :-)

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-12 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-12  9:16 [PATCH] [MTD] UBI: Fix counting of ec value Timo Lindhorst
2007-02-12  9:52 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-12 10:48   ` Timo Lindhorst
2007-02-12 11:38     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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