linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove

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Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:24:06 +0800
From:	"Peter Pan(潘卫平)" 
	<panweiping3@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	"潘卫平(Peter Pan)" 
	<wppan@...flag-linux.com>, tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4:memset is needless in ext4_ext_remove_space()

On 2010年11月08日 12:37, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is inside a loop and sometimes we do i++ and sometimes i--. Are
> you absolutely positive that path + i isn't initialized?
>
> I haven't followed this code through all the way but my instinct is
> that the memset is there for a reason.
>    
I know that I misunderstood it.

Thank you!

Regards

Peter Pan
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