Re: [PATCH 17/28] xfs: kill struct xfs_dir2_block

Dave Chinner
2011-07-08T10:20:43Z

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:05:52AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Remove the confusing xfs_dir2_block structure. It is supposed to describe
> an XFS dir2 block format btree block, but due to the variable sized nature
> of almost all elements in it it can't actuall do anything close to that
> job. In addition to accessing the fixed offset header structure it was
> only used to get a pointer to the first dir or unused entry after it,
> which can be trivially replaced by pointer arithmetics on the header
> pointer. For most users that is actually more natural anyway, as they
> don't use a typed pointer but rather a character pointer for further
> arithmetics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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