linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] hfsplus: fix longname handling

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Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:54:59 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	sougata <sougata@...era.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@...eyko.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] hfsplus: fix longname handling

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:01:16PM +0200, sougata wrote:
> ====> snip <=====
> #define hfs_btree_open hfsplus_btree_open
> #define hfs_btree_close hfsplus_btree_close
> #define hfs_btree_write hfsplus_btree_write
> #define hfs_bmap_alloc hfsplus_bmap_alloc
> #define hfs_bmap_free hfsplus_bmap_free
> #define hfs_bnode_read hfsplus_bnode_read

As far as I understand the history is that some code was at some point
mostly identical between hfsplus and hfs and this made diffing easier,
but Brad would have to answert that.  I don't think there's much point
today where hfs is basically stale legacy code and hfsplus gets all the
development.

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