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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs_db: fix the setting of unaligned directory fields
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:37:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FBE989.1000304@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140212002222.GO13647@dastard>

On 02/11/14 18:22, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:18:41AM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> On 02/10/14 19:31, Dave Chinner wrote:

...

> Hence I'd suggest that "if (bit_field & NBBY) return NULL;" is
> appropriate for hex block format input, and the input should never
> be treated as a host-endian integer...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.

I don't like having the hex block format as an integer input. My change 
would change the result if used as an integer, I just trying to keep 
compatibility with the previous code.

I will gladly leave the hex block input alone and remove the test that 
uses it as an integer.

--Mark.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-10 23:09 [PATCH v2] xfs_db: fix the setting of unaligned directory fields Mark Tinguely
2014-02-11  1:31 ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-11 14:18   ` Mark Tinguely
2014-02-12  0:22     ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-12 21:37       ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2014-02-13 20:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Mark Tinguely
2014-02-18 10:34   ` Dave Chinner

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