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Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:10:59 -0400
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 002 of 9] knfsd: knfsd: Remove an unused variable from e_show().

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:54:32AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
...
> diff .prev/fs/nfsd/export.c ./fs/nfsd/export.c
> --- .prev/fs/nfsd/export.c	2006-07-24 14:33:06.000000000 +1000
> +++ ./fs/nfsd/export.c	2006-07-24 14:33:26.000000000 +1000
> @@ -1178,7 +1178,6 @@ static int e_show(struct seq_file *m, vo
...
>  	if (p == (void *)1) {

I'm not an NFS expert, but the above makes me want to puke. Isn't there a
cleaner way of doing whatever needs to be done without:

1) hard-coding a constant
2) comparing a variable to an arbitrary pointer

Josef Sipek.

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