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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:48:17 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_bread usage audit

On 9/25/12 10:42 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:41:40PM -0300, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
>>
>> Some ext4_bread callers do not needed any changes either because they already
>> had its own hole detector paths or because these are deprecaded (like
>> dx_show_entries)
> 
> BTW, dx_show entries isn't really deprecated; is debugging code which
> is usually not compiled in, but it does get used from time to time by
> developers who are debugging the directory hash tree code...
> 
> So having it show the holes by printing a note that there _was_ a
> whole is probably a good thing from a debugging point of view...

I think what Carlos meant is that there are no callers in the tree...
so even with debug options, it's not used.  It takes a custom patch...
Does it still work? :)

-Eric

>       	 	    	       - Ted
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