linux-kernel - Re: xfs: Remove boolean

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:32:07 -0600
From:	Ben Myers <bpm@....com>
To:	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>,
	linux list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs: Remove boolean_t typedef completely.

Hi Thiago,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:02:14AM -0200, Thiago Farina wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:36:47PM -0200, Thiago Farina wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:36:17PM -0200, Thiago Farina wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Please, take a look.
> >> >>
> >> >> Patch attached.
> >> >
> >> > It's a good start for a cleanup, but there's no point in removing
> >> > the boolean_t from one file and then not removing it from the rest
> >> > of the XFS code.  It's only used in a handful of places, so just
> >> > remove it completely.
> >> >
> >> Done.
> >>
> >> Please, take another look.
> >>
> >> > Also, can you please place patches in line rather than attaching
> >> > them. Attaching them means they cannot be quoted in reply. See
> >> > Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/email-clients.txt
> >> > for guidelines.
> >> >
> >> Sorry, patch attached.
> >
> > It's still attached as a base64 encoded attachment, not as inline
> > text....
> >
> Yep, sorry about that. Is just a text file from $(git format-patch master);

If you don't mind another try... it would be helpful if you could resend the
patch inline.  It helps to facilitate a discussion of the patch along with your
text should it be necessary.

You're only touching xfs, so you can drop linux-kernel if you want.

Thanks,
	Ben
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