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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 14:07:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6v1doq3.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206090446.g594k8u492544@saturn.cs.uml.edu>

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

> 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.

Why do we throw away backward compatible?

> > -	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.

No, this field is aliment problem.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-09  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-09  2:47 [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09  4:24 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-09  4:32 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-09  4:46   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09  5:07     ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2002-06-09  6:03       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09  6:32         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-09  7:09           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09  7:49             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-09  9:46             ` Dave Jones
2002-06-09 17:52               ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-09 18:49                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-09 19:00                 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-09 19:29                   ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-09 20:19                     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10 13:51                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-09 21:04                   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-10 13:55                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-11 16:49                       ` Jamie Lokier
2002-06-12  6:50                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-06-12 11:47                           ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-09  9:00         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-06-09 13:51         ` Martin Dalecki

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