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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.34 ufs/super.c


On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> This patch is definitely correct, but on the other hand I really think
> that the calling convention of sb_set_blocksize() is wrong, and instead of
> returning "size for success or zero for failure ", it should return "error
> code for failure or zero for success".
>
> There's just no point to returning the same size we just passed in.
>
> And making that calling convention the new one would make the current UFS
> code be the _right_ one.
>
> Al, comments? Why the strange calling convention?

No particulary good reason, except keeping calling convention the same for
sb_set_blocksize() and sb_min_blocksize()...

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