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Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:01:14 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:54:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > -	} else if ((block -= 7) < 256) {
> > -		offsets[n++] = 7;
> > +	} else if ((block -= DIRCOUNT) < INDIRCOUNT(sb)) {
>   This modification of 'block' in the if condition is a blatant violation
> of the kernel coding style.

The hell it is. [...said the guy who'd written it that way in the first place]
It _is_ idiomatic C for that kind of thing ("we've got several adjacent ranges,
find which one had we hit and how far from its start").