Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs: add an enum for number of life time hints

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 9/1/25 10:41 PM, hch wrote:
> Looks good, but you probably want to add a few more folks that
> created this constant and the header to the Cc list.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 10:52:04AM +0000, Hans Holmberg wrote:
>> Add WRITE_LIFE_HINT_NR into the rw_hint enum to define the number of
>> values write life time hints can be set to. This is useful for e.g.
>> file systems which may want to map these values to allocation groups.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/rw_hint.h | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/rw_hint.h b/include/linux/rw_hint.h
>> index 309ca72f2dfb..adcc43042c90 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/rw_hint.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/rw_hint.h
>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ enum rw_hint {
>>   	WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM	= RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM,
>>   	WRITE_LIFE_LONG		= RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG,
>>   	WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME	= RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME,
>> +	WRITE_LIFE_HINT_NR,
>>   } __packed;
>>   
>>   /* Sparse ignores __packed annotations on enums, hence the #ifndef below. */
>> -- 
>> 2.34.1
> ---end quoted text---

Thanks Christoph for having Cc-ed me. I'm not a big fan of this type of
change because it makes it harder to write switch-statements without
'default:' clause. From a quick look I haven't found any such
switch-statements on 'enum rw_hint' so I'm fine with this change.

Bart.