[U-Boot] [PATCH v9] Introduced btrfs file-system with btrload command

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Mar 20 16:23:41 CET 2013


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:10:05PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Adnan Ali,
> 
> In message <1363789411-9663-1-git-send-email-adnan.ali at codethink.co.uk> you wrote:
> > Introduces btrfs file-system to read file from
> > volume/sub-volumes with btrload command. This
> > implementation has read-only support.
> > This btrfs implementation is based on syslinux btrfs
> > code, commit 269ebc845ebc8b46ef4b0be7fa0005c7fdb95b8d.
> > 
> > v8:     patch re-formated.
> > v7:     patch re-formated.
> > v6:     patch re-formated.
> 
> What exactly is going on here?  Why do you have to go through so many
> iterations just reformatting again and again and again?

Yes, most of "patch re-formatted" really means "reworked for checkpatch
problems".

> > +void btrfs_type(char num)
> > +{
> > +	switch (num) {
> > +	case BTRFS_FILE:
> > +		printf("<FILE>   "); break;
> > +	case BTRFS_DIR:
> > +		printf("<DIR>    "); break;
> > +	case BTRFS_SYMLNK:
> > +		printf("<SYM>    "); break;
> > +	default:
> > +		printf("<UNKNOWN>"); break;
> 
> Can you please use puts() instead of print() for all output that does
> not really need any formatting?

Agreed (and with the other stuff I've snipped too, as those are
introduced).

> > +		if (ret < 0)
> > +			low = mid + 1;
> > +		else if (ret > 0)
> > +			high = mid;
> > +		else {
> > +			*slot = mid;
> > +
> > +			return 0;
> > +		}
> 
> Is this imported code?

Yes.

> > +	if (__le64_to_cpu(m1->logical) > __le64_to_cpu(m2->logical))
> > +
> > +		return 1;
> > +
> > +	if (__le64_to_cpu(m1->logical) < __le64_to_cpu(m2->logical))
> > +
> > +		return -1;
> 
> Is this imported code? Otherwise: can we drop these empty lines before
> the returns?

This, and the rest are not.  But checkpatch.pl doesn't complain about
them either, annoyingly.  Adnan, try doing a diff between the syslinux
and u-boot files to look for other whitespace oddities that got
introduced.  Thanks.  And, thanks for fixing all of the problems
checkpatch does catch.

-- 
Tom
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