linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sync up block & inode bitmap reading functions

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:12:09 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sync up block & inode bitmap reading functions

On Jul 18, 2008  14:52 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> @@ -97,34 +97,41 @@ unsigned ext4_init_inode_bitmap(struct s
>  static struct buffer_head *
> -read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
> +ext4_read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
>  {
>  	struct ext4_group_desc *desc;
>  	struct buffer_head *bh = NULL;
> +	ext4_fsblk_t bitmap_blk;
>  
>  	desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, block_group, NULL);
>  	if (!desc)
> +		return NULL;

If you were feeling generous, you could change this function to take
gdp as a parameter (or post it as a kernel janitor task?), because
it is already available in most of the functions that call
read_{block,inode}_bitmap(), with the exception of ext4_orphan_get().

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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