linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 08/24] erofs: add namei functions

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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 03:28:38 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@...wei.com>,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/24] erofs: add namei functions

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 08:53:31PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> +struct erofs_qstr {
> +	const unsigned char *name;
> +	const unsigned char *end;
> +};

Maybe erofs_name?  The q in qstr stands for quick, because of the
existing hash and len, which this doesn't really provide.

Also I don't really see why you don't just pass the actual qstr and
just document that dirnamecmp does not look at the hash and thus
doesn't require it to be filled out.