Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal

Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09T04:46:11Z

OGAWA Hirofumi writes:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:

>> - * Conversion from and to little-endian byte order. (no-op on i386/i486)
>> - *
>> - * Naming: Ca_b_c, where a: F = from, T = to, b: LE = little-endian,
>> - * BE = big-endian, c: W = word (16 bits), L = longword (32 bits)
>> - */
>> -
>> -#define CF_LE_W(v) le16_to_cpu(v)
>> -#define CF_LE_L(v) le32_to_cpu(v)
>> -#define CT_LE_W(v) cpu_to_le16(v)
>> -#define CT_LE_L(v) cpu_to_le32(v)
>
> Personally I think this patch makes code readable. But please don't
> remove Cx_LE_x macros. Cx_LE_x is used from dosfsck.

Then the macros should be put in dosfsck, which is not
part of the kernel.

> - logical_sector_size =
> - le16_to_cpu(get_unaligned((unsigned short *) &b->sector_size));
> + logical_sector_size = le16_to_cpu(get_unaligned((u16*)&b->sector_size));

I notice lots of casts in the code. It would be better to
use the correct types to begin with.