From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753772AbaBYTzX (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:55:23 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:50812 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752980AbaBYTzU (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:55:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:54:59 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: sougata Cc: Andrew Morton , Joe Perches , Vyacheslav Dubeyko , Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] hfsplus: fix longname handling Message-ID: <20140225195459.GA14147@infradead.org> References: <1393270107.27792.9.camel@ultrabook> <20140224134832.d64b1e76e2d6d8fe5b25598d@linux-foundation.org> <530CDA6C.9010008@tuxera.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <530CDA6C.9010008@tuxera.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:01:16PM +0200, sougata wrote: > ====> snip <===== > #define hfs_btree_open hfsplus_btree_open > #define hfs_btree_close hfsplus_btree_close > #define hfs_btree_write hfsplus_btree_write > #define hfs_bmap_alloc hfsplus_bmap_alloc > #define hfs_bmap_free hfsplus_bmap_free > #define hfs_bnode_read hfsplus_bnode_read As far as I understand the history is that some code was at some point mostly identical between hfsplus and hfs and this made diffing easier, but Brad would have to answert that. I don't think there's much point today where hfs is basically stale legacy code and hfsplus gets all the development.