linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: clean up feature flag checking and usage

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Date:	Sun, 4 Oct 2015 19:12:12 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: clean up feature flag checking and usage

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 09:36:09AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Rather than making it hard to use cscope/ctags to find the users of
> these feature flags, wouldn't it be better to turn this around the
> other way similar to the way XFS does this? i.e.:
> 
>  -	if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FLEX_BG))
> +	if (ext4_has_feature_flex_bg(sb))
> 
> static inline ext4_has_feature_flex_bg(struct super_block *sb)
> {
> 	return EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FLEX_BG);
> }
> 
> That way the code doing the feature checks is clear and concise, is
> much less shouty and it's not cluttered by whether features are in
> the incompat, ro or compat matrices. As a bonus, cscope still works
> just fine.

Nice suggestion, thanks!   I agree this would be better.

     		 	     	   	- Ted
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