Re: [PATCH] fs: add roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to_blocks helperfunctions

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 22 2009 - 17:55:22 EST


On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:00 -0500
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > roundup_to_blocksize() isn't a terribly good name, IMO. The name
> > conveys no sense of what the function returns. It _sounds_ like it
> > returns a "block size". But it doesn't - it returns a loff_t.
> > round_up_file_offset_to_block_size() is a bit long though :(
>
> Is round_up_to_block() any better? I don't think the trailing "size"
> helps.

dunno.

If the function is documented and if its arg is a loff_t rather than a
bare ull then I guess that makes things sufficiently clear that we
don't have to fuss about its name too much.

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