linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fat: Expand a slightly out-of-date comment

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Message-ID: <87h8i8ei12.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date:   Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:04:41 +0900
From:   OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Mihir Mehta <mihir@...utexas.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: Expand a slightly out-of-date comment

Mihir Mehta <mihir@...utexas.edu> writes:

> The file namei.c seems to have been renamed to namei_msdos.c, so I
> decided to update the comment with the correct name, and expand it a bit
> to tell the reader what to look for.
> ---
>  fs/fat/dir.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c
> index 7f5f369..f4db13f 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/dir.c
> @@ -369,7 +369,9 @@ static int fat_parse_short(struct super_block *sb,
>  	}
>  
>  	memcpy(work, de->name, sizeof(work));
> -	/* see namei.c, msdos_format_name */
> +	/* For an explanation of the special treatment of 0x05 in
> +	 * filenames, see msdos_format_name in namei_msdos.c 
> +	 */
>  	if (work[0] == 0x05)
>  		work[0] = 0xE5;

Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>