linux-kernel - Re: [EXT4 set 3][PATCH 1/1] ext4 nanosecond timestamp

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Message-Id: <1184245126.4299.20.camel@garfield>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:28:46 +0530
From:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	cmm@...ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT4 set 3][PATCH 1/1] ext4 nanosecond timestamp

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:36:56 -0400
> Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch is a spinoff of the old nanosecond patches.
> 
> I don't know what the "old nanosecond patches" are.  A link to a suitable
> changlog for those patches would do in a pinch.  Preferable would be to
> write a proper changelog for this patch.

The incremental patch contains a proper changelog describing the patch.

> > +static inline __le32 ext4_encode_extra_time(struct timespec *time)
> > +{
> > +       return cpu_to_le32((sizeof(time->tv_sec) > 4 ?
> > +			   time->tv_sec >> 32 : 0) |
> > +			   ((time->tv_nsec << 2) & EXT4_NSEC_MASK));
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void ext4_decode_extra_time(struct timespec *time, __le32 extra)
> > +{
> > +       if (sizeof(time->tv_sec) > 4)
> > +	       time->tv_sec |= (__u64)(le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK)
> > +			       << 32;
> > +       time->tv_nsec = (le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_NSEC_MASK) >> 2;
> > +}
> 
> Consider uninlining these functions.

Done.

This patch adds comments, few small corrections and an appropriate
changelog entry.

Thanks,
Kalpak.

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