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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/9] isofs: unobfuscate rock.c
* Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:02:52PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Pekka Enberg (penberg@cs.helsinki.fi) wrote:
> > > This patch removes macro obfuscation from fs/isofs/rock.c and cleans it up
> > > a bit to make it more readable and maintainable. There are no functional
> > > changes, only cleanups. I have only tested this lightly but it passes
> > > mount and read on small Rock Ridge enabled ISO image.
> >
> > You might want to look at current -mm. Andrew has a series or 13 or so
> > patches that do very similar cleanup. Perhaps you could start from there?
>
> Good! When Linus asked I audited rock.c and also did rather similar polishing -
> it happens automatically if one looks at this code. But it seems everybody is
> doing this right now, so I must wait a few weeks and see what got into Linus'
> tree. Linus plugged many but not all holes. (Maybe you did more?)

I plugged one more (in 2.6.11.6 and in Linus' tree), and Andrew plugged
yet another (last patch in his iso/rock cleanup series). More eyes
the better.

thanks,
-chris
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