linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: add roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:52:55 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	marcin.slusarz@...il.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: add roundup_to_blocksize and bytes_to_blocks helper
 functions

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:00 -0500
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > roundup_to_blocksize() isn't a terribly good name, IMO.  The name
> > conveys no sense of what the function returns.  It _sounds_ like it
> > returns a "block size".  But it doesn't - it returns a loff_t. 
> > round_up_file_offset_to_block_size() is a bit long though :(
> 
> Is round_up_to_block() any better?  I don't think the trailing "size"
> helps.

dunno.

If the function is documented and if its arg is a loff_t rather than a
bare ull then I guess that makes things sufficiently clear that we
don't have to fuss about its name too much.

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