linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:06:25 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
CC:     <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "OGAWA Hirofumi" <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

On 2019/8/29 23:43, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> p.s. There are 2947 (un)likely places in fs/ directory.
> 
> I was complaining about you adding new pointless ones, not existing
> ones.  The likely/unlikely annotations are supposed to be functional and
> not decorative.  I explained this very clearly.
> 
> Probably most of the annotations in fs/ are wrong but they are also
> harmless except for the slight messiness.  However there are definitely
> some which are important so removing them all isn't a good idea.

Hi Dan,

Could you please pick up one positive example using likely and unlikely
correctly? so we can follow the example, rather than removing them all blindly.

Thanks,

> 
>> If you like, I will delete them all.
> 
> But for erofs, I don't think that any of the likely/unlikely calls have
> been thought about so I'm fine with removing all of them in one go.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> .
>