From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, thuth@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru,
dvaleev@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH SLOF v3 3/5] disk-label: rename confusing "block" word
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 05:04:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150702100416.GA4392@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <876163f6uy.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:17:49AM +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> >> "block" word is not a block number, actually its an allocated host
> >> address. Rename it to disk-buf along with a associated
> >> size(disk-buf-size=4096) for using during allocation/free.
> >>
> >> Also renaming the helper routine read-sector to read-disk-buf. This
> >> routine assumes the address to be disk-buf and only takes sector number
> >> as argument.
> >
> > This isn't what I suggested, and I think it is a terrible idea.
>
> The comment was against the "has-fat-filesystem". As the complete
> disk-label.fs had that same assumption, I went ahead and renamed "block"
> across the file.
No, I said that "block" in that stack comment was misleading. Nothing more.
Since the word "block" is used all over the file (as your patch size shows),
a short name is much better than a longer name, esp. if that shorter name
actually is more expressive.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-02 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-30 11:01 [PATCH SLOF v3 0/5] GPT fixes/cleanup and LVM support with FAT Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 11:01 ` [PATCH SLOF v3 1/5] disk-label: simplify gpt-prep-partition? routine Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 11:01 ` [PATCH SLOF v3 2/5] introduce 8-byte LE helpers Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 11:01 ` [PATCH SLOF v3 3/5] disk-label: rename confusing "block" word Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-07-01 7:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2015-07-02 5:47 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-07-02 10:04 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2015-07-02 10:14 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 11:01 ` [PATCH SLOF v3 4/5] disk-label: introduce helper to check fat filesystem Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 11:01 ` [PATCH SLOF v3 5/5] disk-label: add support for booting from GPT FAT partition Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 11:28 ` Thomas Huth
2015-06-30 12:24 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-06-30 18:57 ` Thomas Huth
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