linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fat: Added functions to determine the FAT variant (12/16/32bit)

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Date:   Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:04:12 +0900
From:   OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:     Carmeli Tamir <carmeli.tamir@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jthumshirn@...e.de,
        sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        bvanassche@....org, axboe@...nel.dk, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fat: Added functions to determine the FAT variant (12/16/32bit)

Carmeli Tamir <carmeli.tamir@...il.com> writes:

> Along the FAT FS code, the FAT variant (whether this is FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32) is
> determined by checking the fat_bits field of struct msdos_sb_info.
> This is somewhat error prone as it forces the usage of magics (12, 16, 32)
> multiple times in the code.
>
> This series replaces the places in which the variant is checked with three
> inline functions - IS_FAT12, IS_FAT16 and IS_FAT16.
>
> The introduction of these simple inline functions makes a clearer API for determining the variant,
> rather than searching the code for some field in a struct, and therefore
> increases the code's maintainability and readability.
>
> In addition, minor cleanups around code that checks for the FAT variant,
> and fixed comments from v1 and v2.
>
> Carmeli Tamir (3):
>   Removed fat_first_ent
>   Moved and inlined MAX_FAT
>   IS_FAT functions
>
>  fs/fat/cache.c                |  2 +-
>  fs/fat/dir.c                  |  4 ++--
>  fs/fat/fat.h                  | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  fs/fat/fatent.c               | 16 +++++++---------
>  fs/fat/inode.c                | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
>  fs/fat/misc.c                 |  2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/msdos_fs.h |  5 -----
>  7 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

FWIW,

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

for all of this patchset.

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