linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/15] fs/logfs/logfs.h

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Message-Id: <200804080235.28946.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2008 02:35:28 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	joern@...fs.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/15] fs/logfs/logfs.h

On Tuesday 01 April 2008, joern@...fs.org wrote:
> +/*
> + * Private errno for accessed beyond end-of-file.  Only used internally to
> + * logfs.  If this ever gets exposed to userspace or even other parts of the
> + * kernel, it is a bug.  256 was chosen as a number sufficiently above all
> + * used errno #defines.
> + *
> + * It can be argued that this is a hack and should be replaced with something
> + * else.  My last attempt to do this failed spectacularly and there are more
> + * urgent problems that users actually care about.  This will remain for the
> + * moment.  Patches are welcome, of course.
> + */
> +#define EOF                    (512)
> +

Try to make the comment match the definition, it still says the value is 256.

	Arnd <><
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