linux-kernel - Re: lustre: remove unnecessary 'magic' from lustre_pack

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Message-Id: <5E60CDC9-F45C-4B04-B0C3-67C8780C5FD2@linuxhacker.ru>
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 2014 13:54:46 -0500
From:	Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	andreas.dilger@...el.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: lustre: remove unnecessary 'magic' from lustre_pack_request

Hello!

On Jan 30, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Dave Jones wrote:

> This probably made more sense when the code supported multiple protocol versions,
> but now it's just obfuscation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...oraproject.org>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pack_generic.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pack_generic.c
> index 464479c0f00b..c319f74b04f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pack_generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/pack_generic.c
> @@ -244,15 +244,7 @@ int lustre_pack_request(struct ptlrpc_request *req, __u32 magic, int count,
> 	LASSERT(lens[MSG_PTLRPC_BODY_OFF] == sizeof(struct ptlrpc_body));
> 
> 	/* only use new format, we don't need to be compatible with 1.4 */

Can you get rid of this line too please?

> -	magic = LUSTRE_MSG_MAGIC_V2;

Bye,
    Oleg

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