linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 02/50] fs: make the i

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Message-ID: <20250822144036.GC927384@perftesting>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:40:36 -0400
From: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
To: Sun YangKai <sunk67188@...il.com>
Cc: brauner@...nel.org, kernel-team@...com, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/50] fs: make the i_state flags an enum

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 07:18:26PM +0800, Sun YangKai wrote:
> Hi Josef,
> 
> Sorry for the bothering, and I hope this isn't too far off-topic for the 
> current patch series discussion.
> 
> I recently learned about the x-macro trick and was wondering if it might be 
> suitable for use in this context since we are rewriting this. I'd appreciate 
> any thoughts or feedback on whether this approach could be applied here.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your insights!

That's super useful, thanks for that! Christian wants me to do it a different
way so I'm going to do that. But I'll definitely keep this in mind for code he
can't see ;).  Thanks,

Josef