linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsprogs - dirhash.c: remove useless test and assignment in strtohash

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Message-ID: <20170907133919.r3jg4uhurbecnrkb@thunk.org>
Date:   Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:39:19 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Damien Guibouret <damien.guibouret@...tition-saving.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsprogs - dirhash.c: remove useless test and assignment in
 strtohash

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:53:54PM +0200, Damien Guibouret wrote:
> On transformation of str to hash, computed value is initialised before
> first byte modulo 4. But it is already initialised before entering loop
> and after processing last byte modulo 4. So the corresponding test and
> initialisation could be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damien Guibouret <damien.guibouret@...tition-saving.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted