Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 01/10] fs: common implementation of file type

From: Amir Goldstein
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 06:07:12 EST


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:56 PM Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:44:50PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
...
> > Well, I did request to change some content (the location and the comment
> > above BUILD_BUG_ON section) which is relevant for several patches.
> > However, so far affected patched did not get any Reviewed-by.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amir.
>
> Sorry, I missed that bit at the end, was too keen to click through to the
> note about the alleged ext2 bug :-) I will make sure those changes are made
> as well. By location do you mean the location of the v3, v2, etc. stuff and
> your point about including it in the main [0/10] message rather than the
> patches themselves? Again, thank you for your feedback and for being patient
> with me, I really do appreciate it.
>

By location I meant place BUILD_BUG_ON() at the beginning of
ext2_set_de_type() and not nested inside inner scope of ext2_readdir().
And find similar appropriate places for other patches.

And one more thing for next posting - LKML is probably a too wide forum for
this filesystems cleanup series.

Cheers,
Amir.